Changing Lowland Permafrost in Northern Sweden: Multiple Drivers of Past and Future Trends

• Main Author: Johansson, Margareta
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Arctic; Torneträsk; Active layer thickness; Ice; Northern Sweden; permafrost
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1288754; https://portal.research.lu.se/files/5252499/1288755.pdf

Climate warming is more pronounced in the Arctic than in other parts of the world. This warming affects the terrestrial cryosphere including permafrost with consequences ranging from societal impacts to changes in hydrology and feedbacks in the climate system such as those imposed by changing greenh...