Thermal regime and spatial variability of the active layer in Deception Island, Antarctica

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• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Active layer; Antarctica; Permafrost; South Shetland; Thermal state; air temperature; climate effect; crater lake; lithology; snow cover; solar radiation; spatial variation; thermal regime; topography; wind; Deception Island; South Shetland Islands; Refugio; Crater Lake; Irizar; Irizar Crater; Active layer monitoring; Active layer thickness; Antarc*; permafrost
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00044822_v71_n1_p_Goyanes; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00044822_v71_n1_p_Goyanes

The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) program developed over the last two decades has a leading edge in comprehensive efforts to study the impacts of climate change in permafrost environments. This paper describes results obtained during the last six years, on the active layer thickness, th...