Review Article: Permafrost Trapped Natural Gas in Svalbard, Norway

• Main Authors: Birchall, Thomas, Jochmann, Malte, Betlem, Peter, Senger, Kim, Hodson, Andrew, Olaussen, Snorre
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Hopen; Norway; Svalbard; Arctic Archipelago; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-226; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-226/

Permafrost has become an increasingly important subject in the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. However, whilst the uppermost permafrost intervals have been well studied, the processes at its base and the impacts of the underlying geology have been largely overlooked. More than a century of coal...