Permafrost Base Degradation: Characteristics and Unknown Thread With Specific Example From Hornsund, Svalbard

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Wojciech Dobiński, Marek Kasprzak
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
• Subjects: permafrost; permafrost base; active layer; permafrost degradation; hornsund; svalbard; Science; Q; Svalbard; Hornsund; Ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.802157; https://doaj.org/article/884dd5f0487e48a78223f20ae767af74

Permafrost degradation is one of the most pressing issues in the modern cryosphere related to climate change. Most attention is paid to the degradation of the top of the active permafrost associated with contemporary climate. This is the most popular issue because in the subsurface part of it there...