Ground Temperatures and Permafrost Warming from Forest to Tundra, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands and Anderson Plain, NWT, Canada

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Kokelj, S.V. (S. V.), Palmer, M.J. (M. J.), Lantz, T.C. (T. C.), Burn, C. (Christopher R.)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: active layer; climate change; ground temperature; Mackenzie Delta area; terrain disturbance; tree line; Canada; Mackenzie Delta; Tuktoyaktuk; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Tundra
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/22838; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1934

Annual mean ground temperatures (Tg) decline northward from approximately −3.0°C in the boreal forest to −7.0°C in dwarf-shrub tundra in the Tuktoyuktuk Coastlands and Anderson Plain, NWT, Canada. The latitudinal decrease in Tg from forest to tundra is accompanied by an increase in the range of valu...