Permafrost is warming at a global scale
Permafrost warming has the potential to amplify global climate change, because when frozen sediments thaw it unlocks soil organic carbon. Yet to date, no globally consistent assessment of permafrost temperature change has been compiled. Here we use a global data set of permafrost temperature time se...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:3253644 2024-09-15T17:40:13+00:00 Permafrost is warming at a global scale Biskaborn, Boris K. Smith, Sharon L. Noetzli, Jeannette Matthes, Heidrun Vieira, Gonçalo Streletskiy, Dmitry A. Schoeneich, Philippe Romanovsky, Vladimir E. Lewkowicz, Antoni G. Abramov, Andrey Allard, Michel Boike, Julia Cable, William L. Christiansen, Hanne H. Delaloye, Reynald Diekmann, Bernhard Drozdov, Dmitry Etzemüller, Bernd Grosse, Guido Guglielmin, Mauro Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas Isaksen, Ketil Ishikawa, Mamoru Johansson, Margareta Johansson, Halldor Joo, Anseok Kaverin, Dmitry Kholodov, Alexander Konstantinov, Pavel Kröger, Tim Lambiel, Christophe Lanckman, Jean-Pierre Luo, Dongliang Malkova, Galina Meiklejohn, Ian Moskalenko, Natalia Oliva, Marc Phillips, Marcia Ramos, Miguel Sannel, A.Britta K. Sergeev, Dmitrii Seybold, Cathy Skryabin, Pavel Vasiliev, Alexander Wu, Qingbai Yoshikawa, Kenji Zheleznyak, Mikhail Lantuit, Hugues 2019-01-16 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4 eng eng Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/nunataryuk https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4 oai:zenodo.org:3253644 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4 2024-07-25T19:06:36Z Permafrost warming has the potential to amplify global climate change, because when frozen sediments thaw it unlocks soil organic carbon. Yet to date, no globally consistent assessment of permafrost temperature change has been compiled. Here we use a global data set of permafrost temperature time series from the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost to evaluate temperature change across permafrost regions for the period since the International Polar Year (2007–2009). During the reference decade between 2007 and 2016, ground temperature near the depth of zero annual amplitude in the continuous permafrost zone increased by 0.39 ± 0.15 °C. Over the same period, discontinuous permafrost warmed by 0.20 ± 0.10 °C. Permafrost in mountains warmed by 0.19 ± 0.05 °C and in Antarctica by 0.37 ± 0.10 °C. Globally, permafrost temperature increased by 0.29 ± 0.12 °C. The observed trend follows the Arctic amplification of air temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere. In the discontinuous zone, however, ground warming occurred due to increased snow thickness while air temperature remained statistically unchanged. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Climate change Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost International Polar Year permafrost Zenodo Nature Communications 10 1 |
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Permafrost warming has the potential to amplify global climate change, because when frozen sediments thaw it unlocks soil organic carbon. Yet to date, no globally consistent assessment of permafrost temperature change has been compiled. Here we use a global data set of permafrost temperature time series from the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost to evaluate temperature change across permafrost regions for the period since the International Polar Year (2007–2009). During the reference decade between 2007 and 2016, ground temperature near the depth of zero annual amplitude in the continuous permafrost zone increased by 0.39 ± 0.15 °C. Over the same period, discontinuous permafrost warmed by 0.20 ± 0.10 °C. Permafrost in mountains warmed by 0.19 ± 0.05 °C and in Antarctica by 0.37 ± 0.10 °C. Globally, permafrost temperature increased by 0.29 ± 0.12 °C. The observed trend follows the Arctic amplification of air temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere. In the discontinuous zone, however, ground warming occurred due to increased snow thickness while air temperature remained statistically unchanged. |
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Biskaborn, Boris K. Smith, Sharon L. Noetzli, Jeannette Matthes, Heidrun Vieira, Gonçalo Streletskiy, Dmitry A. Schoeneich, Philippe Romanovsky, Vladimir E. Lewkowicz, Antoni G. Abramov, Andrey Allard, Michel Boike, Julia Cable, William L. Christiansen, Hanne H. Delaloye, Reynald Diekmann, Bernhard Drozdov, Dmitry Etzemüller, Bernd Grosse, Guido Guglielmin, Mauro Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas Isaksen, Ketil Ishikawa, Mamoru Johansson, Margareta Johansson, Halldor Joo, Anseok Kaverin, Dmitry Kholodov, Alexander Konstantinov, Pavel Kröger, Tim Lambiel, Christophe Lanckman, Jean-Pierre Luo, Dongliang Malkova, Galina Meiklejohn, Ian Moskalenko, Natalia Oliva, Marc Phillips, Marcia Ramos, Miguel Sannel, A.Britta K. Sergeev, Dmitrii Seybold, Cathy Skryabin, Pavel Vasiliev, Alexander Wu, Qingbai Yoshikawa, Kenji Zheleznyak, Mikhail Lantuit, Hugues |
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Biskaborn, Boris K. Smith, Sharon L. Noetzli, Jeannette Matthes, Heidrun Vieira, Gonçalo Streletskiy, Dmitry A. Schoeneich, Philippe Romanovsky, Vladimir E. Lewkowicz, Antoni G. Abramov, Andrey Allard, Michel Boike, Julia Cable, William L. Christiansen, Hanne H. Delaloye, Reynald Diekmann, Bernhard Drozdov, Dmitry Etzemüller, Bernd Grosse, Guido Guglielmin, Mauro Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas Isaksen, Ketil Ishikawa, Mamoru Johansson, Margareta Johansson, Halldor Joo, Anseok Kaverin, Dmitry Kholodov, Alexander Konstantinov, Pavel Kröger, Tim Lambiel, Christophe Lanckman, Jean-Pierre Luo, Dongliang Malkova, Galina Meiklejohn, Ian Moskalenko, Natalia Oliva, Marc Phillips, Marcia Ramos, Miguel Sannel, A.Britta K. Sergeev, Dmitrii Seybold, Cathy Skryabin, Pavel Vasiliev, Alexander Wu, Qingbai Yoshikawa, Kenji Zheleznyak, Mikhail Lantuit, Hugues Permafrost is warming at a global scale |
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Biskaborn, Boris K. Smith, Sharon L. Noetzli, Jeannette Matthes, Heidrun Vieira, Gonçalo Streletskiy, Dmitry A. Schoeneich, Philippe Romanovsky, Vladimir E. Lewkowicz, Antoni G. Abramov, Andrey Allard, Michel Boike, Julia Cable, William L. Christiansen, Hanne H. Delaloye, Reynald Diekmann, Bernhard Drozdov, Dmitry Etzemüller, Bernd Grosse, Guido Guglielmin, Mauro Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas Isaksen, Ketil Ishikawa, Mamoru Johansson, Margareta Johansson, Halldor Joo, Anseok Kaverin, Dmitry Kholodov, Alexander Konstantinov, Pavel Kröger, Tim Lambiel, Christophe Lanckman, Jean-Pierre Luo, Dongliang Malkova, Galina Meiklejohn, Ian Moskalenko, Natalia Oliva, Marc Phillips, Marcia Ramos, Miguel Sannel, A.Britta K. Sergeev, Dmitrii Seybold, Cathy Skryabin, Pavel Vasiliev, Alexander Wu, Qingbai Yoshikawa, Kenji Zheleznyak, Mikhail Lantuit, Hugues |
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Permafrost is warming at a global scale |
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Permafrost is warming at a global scale |
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Permafrost is warming at a global scale |
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