• methods

    Beck, I. et al. (2015): Assessing Permafrost Degradation and Land Cover Changes (1986 - 2009) using Remote Sensing Data over Umiujaq, Sub-Arctic, Québec, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes , 26 (2) [...] pp. 129 -141. Boike, J. , et al. (2013): Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost and land cover from a new permafrost observatory in the Lena River Delta, Siberia (1998-2011), Biogeosciences, 10 [...] al. (2012): Using ground data from the Global Terrestrial Network of Permafrost (GTN-P) for the Evaluation of the ESA DUE Permafrost remote sensing derived Products Land Surface Temperature and ASCAT Surface

  • preliminary_program_003.pdf

    20-25min): Permafrost Degradation and Infrastructure Modeling Permafrost Landscape Dynamics Housing and infrastructure related problems in Greenland Modeling Gravel and Ice Roads on Permafrost Lunch: 12:00 [...] Tundra Travel Detecting Permafrost Dynamics and Infrastructure from Space Permafrost Landscape Dynamics and Indigenous Land Use Modeling Biogeophysical Processes in Permafrost Environments Lunch: 12:00–12:30: [...] 12:00 – 12:30: Breakout Sessions 12:30 - 14:30: Modeling Permafrost - Infrastructure Interactions Permafrost Degradation Features Ground Ice and Hydrology Breakout Sessions Summary 14:30 – 15:00 Open Poster

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  • Frozen-Ground Cartoons

    topics can be found here: What is permafrost? Greenhouse effect and climate change in permafrost regions How do scientists measure climate change? Local solutions when permafrost thaws Arctic science: a col [...] a reindeer or navigate in interactive maps that show you the permafrost zones in the Arctic. In interviews, you will learn what permafrost is, what the effects of climate change are and how scientists [...] is to make knowledge about permafrost accessible to pupils, teachers and parents by creating cartoons. With this project, we want to establish an understanding for permafrost research among a broader audience

  • Modelling

    needleleaf classes and permafrost extent after Kotlyakov and Khromova: Land Resources of Russia – Maps of Permafrost and Ground Ice, Version 1, NSIDC 2002) Boreal forests in permafrost regions make up around [...] vegetation – permafrost dynamics can have a potentially high impact on the numerous feedback mechanisms between the two ecosystem components. Increased soil carbon release from thawing permafrost through the [...] to understand how the interactions between the vegetation, permafrost and the atmosphere stabilize the forests and the underlying permafrost. A one-dimensional land surface model (CryoGrid) is adapted

  • Results

    including these highly dynamic permafrost environments in future permafrost carbon estimations. Link to journal Carbon and nitrogen pools in thermokarst-affected permafrost landscapes in Arctic Siberia Top: [...] order to account for high variability of permafrost and thermokarst environments in pan-permafrost soil C and N pool estimates. Link to journal Deep Yedoma permafrost: A synthesis of depositional characteristics [...] observed in permafrost regions of Eurasia and North America. Link to journal Tundra fires destabilize permafrost Comparison between the two airborne LiDAR datasets showing clear permafrost terrain subsidence

  • 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

  • News

    "Carbon in Deep Permafrost" at the 2 nd Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP2017), held in Sapporo, Japan. 5.-8. June 2017 Guido, Frank and Anne participated in the Pushchino Permafrost Conference «Earth's [...] change and permafrost degradation in the Arctic at the Klimawerkstatt Spandau . 30. November - 1. December 2018 Loeka, Clara and Josefine take part in the 10th meeting of the working group permafrost oft he [...] embarked on a long and successful journey to better understand and quantify the role of permafrost carbon and rapid permafrost thaw for the carbon cycle. We thank all who contributed to this effort! Many important

  • PermaRisk

    simulation of erosion and mass wasting processes in permafrost landscapes under a warming climate. Current land surface models used to simulate permafrost dynamics are not capable to represent soil erosion [...] between erosion-induced landscape changes and permafrost degradation? In order to answer these crucial questions we will extend and improve the permafrost model CryoGrid3 developed by the Alfred Wegener [...] Background Impacts of permafrost degradation (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Almost a quarter of the land surface of the northern hemisphere of the earth is characterized by permanently frozen soils

  • ICOP 2016

    and develop new project ideas and collaborations in permafrost research and permafrost engineering. The theme of the conference was "Exploring Permafrost in a Future Earth". Konferenz Abstracts Konferenzbericht [...] 11th International Conference on Permafrost The 11th International Permafrost Conference (ICOP 2016) took place in Potsdam from 20-24 June 2016. 739 participants from more than 36 nations attended the

  • LTO Bayelva

    (Photo: Julia Boike) Observational data density in the permafrost region is low. At the Bayelva site close to Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, the mean permafrost temperature is −2.8 °C, with a zero-amplitude depth [...] layer, temperature down to 9 m in the permafrost. Since the data provide observations of temporally variable parameters that mitigate energy fluxes between permafrost and atmosphere, they are suitable for [...] for use in integrating, calibrating and testing permafrost as a component in earth system models. Science: Prof. Dr. Julia Boike Technique: Niko Bornemann Art & Science: Real-Time Listening at Bayelva Data