• Climate Modelling

    data sets (soil temperatures, active layer thickness, soil temperatures, and permafrost extent). Sensitivity of the permafrost representation with respect to soil texture, soil organic matter, and snow thermal [...] Conductivity Schemes on pan-Arctic Permafrost Dynamics in CLM5.0, EGUsphere [preprint], doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1412 Damseux, A.,2024: Improving permafrost dynamics in land surface models: [...] Community Earth System Model (CTSM) ( github.com/ESCOMP/CTSM ). It is used in modelling permafrost-related processes in the Arctic. It has replaced our earlier research with CLM4.5 ( Matthes et

  • WP4 engl

    in WP5. Methods will include quantification of land to ocean carbon transport from glacier and permafrost melting and analysis of POC degradability and POC/DOC concentration and composition, organic matter

  • FluxWIN

    emissions in this project is also important for understanding how now-frozen soils will respond to permafrost thaw as soils that are always frozen shift to becoming seasonally or perennially thawed with increased

  • Model development

    climates, with a particular focus on open larch forest ecosystems in Arctic environments underlain by permafrost. Today, LAVESI has been extended to simulate all key boreal tree species within the Taiga–Tundra

  • COLDSPOT

    bridge group between the Alfred-Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research ( Permafrost Research Section ), and the University of Hamburg . Team Dr. Carolina Voigt (Group lead) Dr. Friederike

  • The pulse of the Arctic

    in the region. In August 2016, the town Point Lay in Alaska lost its nearby lake. Due to thawing permafrost soils, the lake had steadily lost stability and ultimately drained entirely into the Kokolik River

  • test sites

    the research project PermaSAR and the main focus is on landsurface subsidence or heave caused by permafrost processes such as thawing and freezing. Field campaigns are conducted in collaboration with the

  • Team

    current team of the Permafrost Research Section Head of Section Prof. Dr. Guido Grosse Deputy Head of Section Prof. Dr. Hugues Lantuit Prof. Dr. Julia Boike Assistant Melanie Reinhardt Senior Scientists

  • Bernhard Diekmann

    like what we now see in eastern Siberia. Today’s Arctic, with ice-covered Greenland, Siberian permafrost and sea ice at the North Pole, is a holdover of that glacial world. But for how much longer? As

  • Earth System Complexity

    large-scale components of the Earth, like the ice sheets and ocean circulation, boreal forest and permafrost. We strive to increase our understanding of the relevant processes driving dynamics within these