Pan-Antarctic map of near-surface permafrost temperatures at at 1 km2 scale

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Obu, Jaroslav, Westermann, Sebastian, Vieira, Gonçalo, Abramov, Andrey, Balks, Megan Ruby, Bartsch, Annett, Hrbáček, Filip, Kääb, Andreas, Ramos, Miguel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: Permafrost; Antarctic’s ice-free areas; Pan-Antarctic map; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Markham; Queen Elizabeth Range; Mount Markham; Antarc*; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/42665; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-497-2020

Permafrost is present within almost all of the Antarctic's ice-free areas, but little is known about spatial variations in permafrost temperatures except for a few areas with established ground temperature measurements. We modelled a temperature at the top of the permafrost (TTOP) for all the i...