Permafrost longterm monitoring sites (Arctic and Antarctic)

• Main Authors: Bartsch, Annett, Allard, Michel, Biskaborn, Boris K, Burba, George, Christiansen, Hanne Hvidtfeldt, Duguay, Claude R, Grosse, Guido, Günther, Frank, Heim, Birgit, Högström, Elin, Kääb, Andreas, Keuper, Frida, Lanckman, Jean-Pierre, Lantuit, Hugues, Lauknes, Tom Rune, Leibman, Marina O, Liu, Lin, Morgenstern, Anne, Necsoiu, Marius, Overduin, Pier Paul, Pope, Allen, Sachs, Torsten, Séjourné, Antoine, Streletskiy, Dmitry A, Strozzi, Tazio, Ullmann, Tobias, Ullrich, Matthias S, Vieira, Gonçalo, Widhalm, Barbara
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century; Country; Elevation; maximum; mean; minimum; File name; Identification; LATITUDE; Latitude 2; LONGITUDE; Longitude 2; PAGE21; Persistent Identifier; Site; Antarctic; Arctic; Antarc*; permafrost; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.847003; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.847003

About 50 locations ('cold spots') where permafrost (Arctic and Antarctic) in situ monitoring has been taking place for many years or where field stations are currently established (through, for example the Canadian ADAPT program) have been identified. These sites have been proposed to WMO Polar Space Task Group as focus areas for future monitoring by satellite data. Seven monitoring transects spanning different permafrost types have been proposed in addition.