Permafrost trapped natural gas in Svalbard, Norway

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Thomas Birchall, Malte Jochmann, Peter Betlem, Kim Senger, Andrew Hodson, Snorre Olaussen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
• Subjects: permafrost; natural gas; cryosphere; greenhouse gas; methane; Arctic; Science; Q; Hopen; Norway; Svalbard; Ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1277027; https://doaj.org/article/71b11ef9c5264413b6221f790398aca5

Permafrost is widespread in the High Arctic, including the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The uppermost permafrost intervals have been well studied, but the processes at its base and the impacts of the underlying geology have been largely overlooked. More than a century of coal, hydrocarbon, and...