Degrading mountain permafrost in southern Norway: spatial and temporal variability of mean ground temperatures, 1999–2009

• Main Authors: Isaksen, Ketil, Ødegård, Rune Strand, Etzelmüller, Bernd, Hilbich, Christin, Hauck, Christian, Farbrot, Herman, Eiken, Trond, Hygen, Hans Olav, Hipp, Tobias Florian
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Dovrefjell; Norway; permafrost
• Online Access: http://doc.rero.ch/record/28729/files/hau_dmp.pdf

A ten-year record (1999–2009) of annual mean ground surface temperatures (MGSTs) and mean ground temperatures (MGTs) was analysed for 16 monitoring sites in Jotunheimen and on Dovrefjell, southern Norway. Warming has occurred at sites with cold permafrost, marginal permafrost and deep seasonal frost...