Pan-Antarctic map of near-surface permafrost temperatures at 1 km 2 scale

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: J. Obu, S. Westermann, G. Vieira, A. Abramov, M. R. Balks, A. Bartsch, F. Hrbáček, A. Kääb, M. Ramos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Markham; Queen Elizabeth Range; Mount Markham; Antarc*; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-497-2020; https://doaj.org/article/cac86d94f32c45888670b926495dda43

Permafrost is present within almost all of the Antarctic's ice-free areas, but little is known about spatial variations in permafrost temperatures except for a few areas with established ground temperature measurements. We modelled a temperature at the top of the permafrost (TTOP) for all the i...