Discussion of the thermo-insulation effect of a seasonal snow cover on permafrost soil in Bayelva, Svalbard (1998 - 2017) with respect to current knowledge

• Main Author: Ebenhoch, Sabrina
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Bayelva; Arctic Council; permafrost; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50747/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50747/1/180129_MA_Thesis_Ebenhoch.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.15b6cfff-b6bb-4923-8106-0e37b3eadda2; https://hdl.handle.net/

Bayelva is a High-Arctic research site on Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard archipelago (78.551 ° N; 11.571 ° E) 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 -2.8 °C and s...