Pan-Antarctic map of near-surface permafrost temperatures at 1 km2 scale

• Main Authors: Obu, Jaroslav, Westermann, Sebastian, Vieira, Gonçalo, Abramov, Andrey, Balks, Megan, Bartsch, Annett, Hrbáček, Filip, Kääb, Andreas, Ramos, Miguel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Markham; Mount Markham; Queen Elizabeth Range; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-148; https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2019-148/

Permafrost is present under almost all of the Antarctic’s ice-free areas but little is known about spatial variations of permafrost temperatures outside a few areas with established ground temperature measurements. We modelled a temperature at the top of the permafrost (TTOP) for all the ice-free ar...