PERMOS – a comprehensive monitoring network of mountain permafrost in the Swiss Alps

Permafrost Monitoring in Switzerland (PERMOS) has been built up since the early 1990s. After a 6-year pilot phase starting in 2000, PERMOS has taken root. In 2007, all potential PERMOS elements were evaluated based on the criteria and categorised into (A) approved element, (B) element subject to ver...

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Main Authors: Vonder Muehll, D, Noetzli, J, Roer, I
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Institute of Geography
910 Geography & travel
active layer
monitoring
mountain permafrost
permafrost temperature
rock glacier creep velocity
permafrost
Online Access:https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/4288/
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/4288/9/VonderMuehll_Noetzli__PERMOS_2008V.pdf
http://www.blue-europa.org/nicop_proceedings/8%20Vol%202%20(1781-xl).pdf
https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-4288
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Summary:Permafrost Monitoring in Switzerland (PERMOS) has been built up since the early 1990s. After a 6-year pilot phase starting in 2000, PERMOS has taken root. In 2007, all potential PERMOS elements were evaluated based on the criteria and categorised into (A) approved element, (B) element subject to verification in the next two years, and (C) no PERMOS element. The concept “PERMOS 2007” was updated and adapted accordingly. All approved elements will fulfill defined technological and methodological standards. Hence, in 2010, PERMOS will be a sound, sustainable observation network with two types of PERMOS stations: (1) drill sites building the basis of the monitoring network, and (2) kinematic sites, where systematic observations of permafrost geomorphodynamics are performed, allowing for an integral assessment of the permafrost state in the Swiss Alps. PERMOS is presently active in four regions: Upper Engadine, Bernese Oberland, Matter Valley, and “Quatre Vallées.”

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