Ground ice content, drilling methods and equipment and permafrost dynamics in Svalbard 2016–2019 (PermaSval)

• Main Authors: Christiansen, Hanne H., Gilbert, Graham L., Neumann, Ullrich, Demidov, Nikita, Guglielmin, Mauro, Isaksen, Ketil, Osuch, Marzena, Boike, Julia
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System 2021
• Subjects: Permafrost; ground temperature; active layer; ground ice content; drilling methods; Svalbard; Ny-Ålesund; Adventdalen; Barentsburg; Kapp Linné; Janssonhaugen; Breinosa; Ice; Ny Ålesund; permafrost
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4294095; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4294095

This is chapter 12 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2020 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue3). The observed mean annual permafrost temperature data for the period 2016-2019 at 10-20 m depths show a range from no warming in the Adventdalen, Ny-Ålesund and Barentsburg...