Long-term analysis of cryoseismic events and associated ground thermal stress in Adventdalen, Svalbard

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Romeyn, Rowan, Hanssen, Alfred, Köhler, Andreas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Adventdalen; Janssonhaugen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2025-2022; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/2025/2022/

The small-aperture Spitsbergen seismic array (SPITS) has been in continuous operation at Janssonhaugen for decades. The high-Arctic location in the Svalbard archipelago makes SPITS an ideal laboratory for the study of cryoseisms, a nontectonic class of seismic events caused by freeze processes in ic...