Permafrost and climate in Europe: Monitoring and modelling thermal, geomorphological and geotechnical responses

C Harris, LU Arenson, HH Christiansen… - Earth-Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
We present a review of the changing state of European permafrost within a spatial zone that
includes the continuous high latitude arctic permafrost of Svalbard and the discontinuous …

Surface energy fluxes and distribution models of permafrost in European mountain areas: an overview of current developments

M Hoelzle, C Mittaz, B Etzelmüller… - Permafrost and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years successful attempts have been made to develop and improve spatial
modelling of mountain permafrost distribution. Work package 4 of the PACE project …

Evidence for warming and thawing of discontinuous permafrost in Alaska

TE Osterkamp, VE Romanovsky - Permafrost and periglacial …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Data show that permafrost temperatures along a north–south transect of Alaska from Old
Man to Gulkana and at Healy generally warmed in the late 1980s to 1996. This trend was …

Effects of unfrozen water on heat and mass transport processes in the active layer and permafrost

VE Romanovsky, TE Osterkamp - Permafrost and Periglacial …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Precise temperature data from four Alaskan permafrost sites (Prudhoe Bay, Barrow and two
sites near Fairbanks) combined with computer modelling provide quantitative measures of …

Impacts of wildfire on the permafrost in the boreal forests of Interior Alaska

K Yoshikawa, WR Bolton… - Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The impact to the permafrost during and after wildfire was studied using 11 boreal forest fire
sites including two controlled burns. Heat transfer by conduction to the permafrost was not …

Past and recent changes in air and permafrost temperatures in eastern Siberia

VE Romanovsky, TS Sazonova, VT Balobaev… - Global and Planetary …, 2007 - Elsevier
Air and ground temperatures measured in Eastern Siberia has been compiled and
analyzed. The analysis of mean annual air temperatures measured at 52 meteorological …

Permafrost temperature records: Indicators of climate change

V Romanovsky, M Burgess, S Smith… - EOS, Transactions …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost has received much attention recently because surface temperatures are rising in
most permafrost areas of the Earth, bringing permafrost to the edge of widespread thawing …

A process‐based model for quantifying the impact of climate change on permafrost thermal regimes

Y Zhang, W Chen, J Cihlar - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Air temperature at northern high latitudes has increased at a higher rate than the global
mean, and most general circulation models project that this pattern will continue. Climate …

A sensitivity study of factors influencing warm/thin permafrost in the Swiss Alps

M Luetschg, M Lehning, W Haeberli - Journal of Glaciology, 2008 - cambridge.org
Alpine permafrost distribution is controlled by a great number of climatic, topographic and
soil-specific factors, including snow cover, which plays a major role. In this study, a one …

Incorporation of a permafrost model into a large‐scale ecosystem model: Evaluation of temporal and spatial scaling issues in simulating soil thermal dynamics

Q Zhuang, VE Romanovsky… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This study evaluated whether a model of permafrost dynamics with a 0.5‐day resolution
internal time step that is driven by monthly climate inputs is adequate for representing the …