A decade of detailed observations (2008–2018) in steep bedrock permafrost at the Matterhorn Hörnligrat (Zermatt, CH) ...

• Main Authors: Weber, Samuel, Beutel, Jan, Da Forno, Reto, Geiger, Alain, Gruber, Stephan, Gsell, Tonio, Hasler, Andreas, Keller, Matthias, Lim, Roman, Limpach, Philippe, Meyer, Matthias, Talzi, Igor, Thiele, Lothar, Tschudin, Christian, Vieli, Andreas, Vonder Mühll, Daniel, Yücel, Mustafa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ETH Zurich 2019
• Subjects: permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000358376; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/358376

The PermaSense project is an ongoing interdisciplinary effort between geo-science and engineering disciplines and started in 2006 with the goals of realizing observations that previously have not been possible. Specifically, the aims are to obtain measurements in unprecedented quantity and quality based on technological advances. This paper describes a unique >10-year data record obtained from in situ measurements in steep bedrock permafrost in an Alpine environment on the Matterhorn Hörnligrat, Zermatt, Switzerland, at 3500 ma.s.l. Through the utilization of state-of-the-art wireless sensor technology it was possible to obtain more data of higher quality, make these data available in near real time and tightly monitor and control the running experiments. This data set (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.897640, Weber et al., 2019a) constitutes the longest, densest and most diverse data record in the history of mountain permafrost research worldwide with 17 different sensor types used at 29 distinct sensor ... : Earth System Science Data, 11 (3) ...