permafrost regions
Editorial: Organic carbon pools in permafrost regions on the Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau
... Perennially frozen soils are important earth system car- bon pools because of their vulnerability to climate change (Koven et al., 2011). Some of the movement of SOC from surface to few meter depth is accomplished ...
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Vertical movements of frost mounds in subarctic permafrost regions analyzed using geodetic survey and satellite interferometry
... that permafrost features in this re- gion are currently undergoing active ...subarctic permafrost regions will have important implications for planning the use of D-InSAR in such regions, and ...
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The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions
... soil classification maps in which data on soil order coverage have been linked to pedon data (n = 1778) from the northern permafrost regions to calculate SOC content and mass. In addition, new gridded ...
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Effects of short-term variability of meteorological variables on soil temperature in permafrost regions
... and ice content. Hence, lichens and bryophytes dynamically influence the vertical heat conduction (Porada et al., 2016a). This study investigates the effects of temporal variability of meteorological variables on snow ...
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A vertical representation of soil carbon in the JULES land surface scheme (vn4.3_permafrost) with a focus on permafrost regions
... in permafrost regions will enable more realistic projections of the future climate–carbon ...of permafrost carbon, such as peat development, are included in the ...of permafrost carbon for ...
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Simulating high-latitude permafrost regions by the JSBACH terrestrial ecosystem model
... the permafrost probability, Gruber (2012) estimated that around 22 % ( ± 3 %) of the Northern Hemisphere land is un- derlain by ...cumpolar permafrost soils are larger than the previous es- timates ...
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A vertical representation of soil carbon in the JULES land surface scheme (vn4.3_permafrost) with a focus on permafrost regions
... in permafrost regions will enable more realistic projections of the future climate–carbon ...of permafrost carbon, such as peat development, are included in the ...of permafrost carbon for ...
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Energy and mass changes of the Eurasian permafrost regions by multi satellite and in situ measurements
... Arctic permafrost watersheds point to the strong role of groundwater storage changes ...[6,7]. Permafrost regions can contain liquid water and in large quantities ...as permafrost thaws and ...
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Geothermal Investigations in Permafrost Regions—The Duration of Temperature Monitoring after Wellbores Shut In
... the permafrost thickness from short term (in comparison with the time required for temperature restoration) downhole temperature ...the permafrost thick- ness is based on determining the geothermal gradient ...
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Global distribution of soil organic carbon – Part 1: Masses and frequency distributions of SOC stocks for the tropics, permafrost regions, wetlands, and the world
... North American stocks of the top 1 m, medium confidence (33–66 %) in the values for the Eurasian stocks of the top 1 m, and very low to low confidence (< 33 %) in the values for the other regional stocks and stocks of ...
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The new database of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P)
... of permafrost in high latitudes and high altitudes which were called the “IPA snapshot” (Christiansen et ...thermal permafrost data from the western Arctic for ...of permafrost tem- perature and ...
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Permafrost soils and carbon cycling
... in permafrost regions are thaw lakes; some can simply be abandoned channel lakes, inter-dunal lakes, or impound- ments in depressions of undulating surficial deposits (Jor- genson et ...plain ...
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Seismic Vulnerability of Buried Energy Pipelines in Northern Canada
... The probability that a buried pipeline is exposed to the peak ground deformation (PGD) of earthquake-triggered active-layer detachment (ALD) in permafrost regions was investigated. Two mechanisms were ...
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A new map of permafrost distribution on the Tibetan Plateau
... of permafrost terrain in the mid- and low-latitude regions of the ...Some permafrost distribution maps have been com- piled but, due to limited data sources, ambiguous criteria, inadequate ...
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The influence of climate and hydrological variables on opposite anomaly in active-layer thickness between Eurasian and North American watersheds
... The preceding section focused on the validity of the sim- ulated permafrost and ALT. A more direct comparison is possible using soil temperature observed at field sites. We used data sets of the Russian Historical ...
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Permafrost distribution in steep rock slopes in Norway: measurements, statistical modelling and implications for geomorphological processes
... trolling permafrost distribution and changes are the incom- ing shortwave solar radiation (or sun exposure) and the air temperature (or ...slope permafrost (Gruber et ...map permafrost over large ar- ...
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Present and LGM permafrost from climate simulations: contribution of statistical downscaling
... in permafrost stud- ...of permafrost to bridge the gap between GCMs and local-scale permafrost ...derived permafrost from RCM simulation using the “frost index” described originally by Nelson ...
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Weekly gridded Aquarius L-band radiometer/scatterometer observations and salinity retrievals over the polar regions – Part 1: Product description
... Abstract. Passive and active observations at L band (fre- quency ∼ 1.4 GHz) from the Aquarius/SAC-D mission of- fer new capabilities to study the polar regions. Due to the lack of polar-gridded products, however, ...
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A simplified permafrost-carbon model for long-term climate studies with the CLIMBER-2 coupled earth system model
... and permafrost-related carbon an important area of study. Thus far permafrost models that have been coupled within land-surface schemes have relied on thermal heat dif- fusion calculations from air ...
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Distinguishing ice-rich and ice-poor permafrost to map ground temperatures and ground ice occurrence in the Swiss Alps
... a permafrost likelihood or index based on the energy balance results and dependent on landforms, surface coverage, vegetation or topographic characteristics such as slope or curvature (Boeckli et ...
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