Frozen ground and snow cover monitoring in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: Instrumentation, effects on ground thermal behaviour and future research

• Published in: Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica
• Main Authors: de Pablo, M. A., Ramos, M., Molina, A., Vieira, G., Hidalgo, M. A., Prieto, M., Jiménez, J. J., Fernández, S., Recondo, C., Calleja, J. F., Peón, J. J., Mora, C.
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Gobierno de España. Fundación para la Ciencia y Tecnología, Portugal.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de La Rioja 2016
• Subjects: Permafrost; Active layer; Snow cover; Antarctica; Capa activa; Nieve; Antártida; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; islas Shetland del Sur; Shetland del Sur; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Active layer thickness; Antarc*; Antártica; GTN-P; International Permafrost Association; permafrost
• Online Access: https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/cig/article/view/2917; https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.2917

The study of the thermal behavior of permafrost and active layer on the South Shetland Islands, in the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica), has been our research topic since 1991, especially after 2006 when we established different active layer thickness and ground thermal monitorin...