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Jonas Åkerman

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The Thermal State of Permafrost in the Nordic Area during the International Polar Year 2007-2009

Författare

  • H. H. Christiansen
  • B. Etzelmuller
  • K. Isaksen
  • H. Juliussen
  • H. Farbrot
  • O. Humlum
  • Margareta Johansson
  • T. Ingeman-Nielsen
  • L. Kristensen
  • J. Hjort
  • P. Holmlund
  • A. B. K. Sannel
  • C. Sigsgaard
  • Jonas Åkerman
  • N. Foged
  • L. H. Blikra
  • M. A. Pernosky
  • R. S. Odegard

Summary, in English

This paper provides a snapshot of the permafrost thermal state in the Nordic area obtained during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2009. Several intensive research campaigns were undertaken within a variety of projects in the Nordic countries to obtain this snapshot. We demonstrate for Scandinavia that both lowland permafrost in palsas and peat plateaus, and large areas of permafrost in the mountains are at temperatures close to 0 degrees C, which makes them sensitive to climatic changes. In Svalbard and northeast Greenland, and also in the highest parts of the mountains in the rest of the Nordic area, the permafrost is somewhat colder, but still only a few degrees below the freezing point. The observations presented from the network of boreholes, more than half of which were established during the IPY, provide an important baseline to assess how future predicted climatic changes may affect the permafrost thermal state in the Nordic area. Time series of active-layer thickness and permafrost temperature conditions in the Nordic area, which are generally only 10 years in length, show generally increasing active-layer depths and risings permafrost temperatures. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

156-181

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volym

21

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Physical Geography

Nyckelord

  • air
  • International Polar Year
  • ground temperature
  • permafrost
  • Nordic
  • active layer
  • temperature

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1099-1530