Warming of permafrost temperatures on Svalbard - what is the effect of the snow cover?

• Main Authors: Boike, Julia, Westermann, Sebastian, Piel, Konstanze, Overduin, Pier Paul
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Bayelva; Ny-Ålesund; Svalbard; Ice; Ny Ålesund; permafrost
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22189/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.34467

1 MOTIVATIONThis contribution investigates the warming of per-mafrost and potential causes: (i) snow cover and physical properties, (ii) soil thermal state before on-set of snowfall (iii) climate parameters such as win-ter air temperatures and radiation balance. The main factors determining the perm...