Assessment (ACIA) and United Nations Environment

(NICOP) is an appropriate occasion to take note of the current state of permafrost on planet Earth. This is particularly relevant as we celebrate the Fourth International Polar Year (IPY) and the International Year of Planet Earth and begin to compile the snapshot of permafrost temperature and activ...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Periglac Process, The Ninth, International Conference Permafrost
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
IPY
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.420.2819
http://www.lter.uaf.edu/pdf/1288_Brown_Romanovsky_2008.pdf
Description
Summary:(NICOP) is an appropriate occasion to take note of the current state of permafrost on planet Earth. This is particularly relevant as we celebrate the Fourth International Polar Year (IPY) and the International Year of Planet Earth and begin to compile the snapshot of permafrost temperature and active layer measurements. Recent assessments have considered present-day and future responses of permafrost terrain to climate