Permafrost thermal snapshot and active-layer thickness in Svalbard 2016-2017

• Main Authors: Christiansen, Hanne H, Gilbert, Graham L, Demidov, Nikita, Guglielmin, Mauro, Isaksen, Ketil, Osuch, Marzena, Boike, Julia
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: permafrost; active layer; meteorology; ground temperature; Svalbard; Ny-Ålesund; Norway; Hornsund; Adventdalen; Barentsburg; Active layer monitoring; Active layer thickness; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4777825; https://zenodo.org/record/4777825

This is chapter 1 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2018 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue1). Permafrost plays an important role in the Earth System underlying 25% of the terrestrial parts of Planet Earth. It is a thermal condition occurring in the ground in cold re...