Journal
PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 361-377Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.728
Keywords
warming permafrost; permafrost degradation; mean ground surface temperature; seasonal frost; repeated electrical resistivity tomography (ERT); long-term monitoring
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- Norwegian Meteorological Institute
- Gjovik University College
- Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo
- Norwegian Research Council
- PACE [ENV4-CT97-0492]
- European Community
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A ten-year record (1999-2009) of annual mean ground surface temperatures (MGSTs) and mean ground temperatures (MGTs) was analysed for 16 monitoring sites in Jotunheimen and on Dovrefjell, southern Norway. Warming has occurred at sites with cold permafrost, marginal permafrost and deep seasonal frost. Ongoing permafrost degradation is suggested both by direct temperature monitoring and indirect geophysical surveys. An increase in MGT at 6.69.0-m depth was observed for most sites, ranging from similar to 0.015 to similar to 0.095 degrees C a(-1). The greatest rate of temperature increase was for sites having MGTs slightly above 0 degrees C. The lowest rate of increase was for marginal permafrost sites that are affected by latent heat exchange close to 0 degrees C. Increased snow depths and an increase in winter air temperatures appear to be the most important factors controlling warming observed over the ten-year period. Geophysical surveys performed in 1999 to delineate the altitudinal limit of mountain permafrost were repeated in 2009 and 2010 and indicated the degradation of some permafrost over the intervening decade. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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