Thermo-insulation effect of a seasonal snow-cover on permafrost soil in Bayelva, Svalbard (1998 - 2017)

• Main Authors: Ebenhoch, Sabrina, Maturilli, Marion, Höfle, Bernhard, Roth, Kurt, Boike, Julia
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Heidelberg 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Bayelva; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Arctic Council; permafrost; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48088/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48088/1/180226_SnowHydro_poster_SE.pdf; https://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/hydro/snow2018.html; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.da0b83d2-f5fd-478f-8ca6-73b3bf39f152; https://hdl.handle.net/

Bayelva is a high-arctic research site on Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard archipelago (78.551N; 11.571E) where climate, soil and snow components are recorded since 1998 by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute. This study site is underlain by permafrost with average temperatures around -2 °C and seasonall...