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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Tao, Jing, Koster, Randal D., Reichle, Rolf H., Forman, Barton A., Xue, Yuan, Chen, Richard H., Moghaddam, Mahta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Merra; Active layer thickness; permafrost; The Cryosphere; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2087-2019; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00000619; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00000586/tc-13-2087-2019.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/2087/2019/tc-13-2087-2019.pdf

This study introduces and evaluates a comprehensive, model-generated dataset of Northern Hemisphere permafrost conditions at 81 km2 resolution. Surface meteorological forcing fields from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications 2 (MERRA-2) reanalysis were used to drive an...