Common Grounds – Permafrost Sonification

Common Grounds – Permafrost Sonification The circumpolar region of the arctic is the fastest warming place on earth. While finally acknowledged by the public, and already felt as more frequent extreme [...] Halperin-Kaddari of the Sono-Choreographic Collective in collaboration with Tobias Grewenig and the Permafrost research group led by Julia Boike at Alfred-Wegener-Institut Potsdam. Common Grounds ATD Documentation [...] Participants (extern) Kerstin Ergenzinger, Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari, Tobias Grewenig Section (AWI) Permafrost Research

Coastlines’ contribution to climate change possibly underestimated

Scientific Publication
Permafrost coasts make up about one third of the Earth’s total coastline. As a result of accelerated climate change, whole sections of coastline rapidly thaw, and erode into the [...] now shows that large amounts of carbon dioxide are potentially being produced along these eroding permafrost coastlines in the Arctic.

Coastal erosion in the Arctic intensifies global warming

Nature Communications Study
The loss of arctic permafrost deposits by coastal erosion could amplify climate warming via the greenhouse effect. A study using sediment samples from the Sea of Okhotsk [...] Okhotsk on the eastern coast of Russia led by AWI researchers revealed that the loss of Arctic permafrost at the end of the last glacial period led to repeated sudden increases in the carbon dioxide concentration

Coastal carbon sinks protect permafrost material from decomposition

Permafrost
The Arctic is warming more strongly than any other region on Earth, which leads to serious erosion of coasts where organic matter was frozen in the permafrost for thousands of years. Once

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

Circulation in the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas

continental slopes to the bottom waters of the shallow shelves, some of which contain submarine permafrost and gas hydrates. Offshore-directed winds in winter frequently open leads and polynyas in the ice

Central-Yakutia-2015-03

Expedition Central Yakutia 2015 Permafrost core description Coring Permafrost Coring permafrost Packing permafrost cores Coring through a frozen thaw lake Ice road down the river Lena Pingo in Central

Central-Alaska-2017-03

Ready to be shipped: 400 kg of 62 individual core segments are cut and will be packed. Microbes in Permafrost under the magnifying glass: Ina and Ronnie Daanen present the topic at the „World Ice Art Championships

Carbon

Permafrost carbon Sampling a Yedoma cliff, Sobo Sise island, Lena Delta (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes, especially those underlain by permafrost, are threatened by climate warming and [...] cycle as greenhouse gases, which accelerate warming and inducing more permafrost thaw and carbon release. This loop is called permafrost–carbon feedback, and as this effect is strengthening itself, it is [...] ked a large amount of carbon. To assess the concern of a permafrost carbon feedback and to develop a better understanding of future permafrost-carbon dynamics, the PETA-CARB project aims at quantifying

Canada

around Trail Valley Creek from Polar 5 Thaw slump on the edge of a lake in Canada due to thawing permafrost Yukon River Yukon Five-Finger-Rapids Richards Mountains from dempster highway