Permafrost variability over the Northern Hemisphere based on the MERRA-2 reanalysis

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: J. Tao, R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, B. A. Forman, Y. Xue, R. H. Chen, M. Moghaddam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Merra; Active layer thickness; permafrost; The Cryosphere; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2087-2019; https://doaj.org/article/91a22d0b6c484fafb45470353d8c83c3

This study introduces and evaluates a comprehensive, model-generated dataset of Northern Hemisphere permafrost conditions at 81 km 2 resolution. Surface meteorological forcing fields from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications 2 (MERRA-2) reanalysis were used to drive an...