Interpretation of geothermal profiles perturbed by topography: The Alpine permafrost boreholes at Stockhorn Plateau, Switzerland

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-357

  Gruber, Stephan ^a   King, Lorenz ^b   Kohl, Thomas ^c   Herz, Thomas ^b   Haeberli, Wilfried ^a   Hoelzle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Borehole temperatures; Climate change; Geothermal monitoring; Ground surface temperature history; Mountain permafrost

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BOREHOLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; PERMAFROST; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS; WORLD;

EID: 11144260246     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.503     Document Type: Article

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