Installation of a shallow borehole network and monitoring of the ground thermal regime of a high alpine discontinuous permafrost environment, Eastern Swiss Alps

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 84-93

  Hanson, Susanne ^a   Hoelzle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active layer; Boreholes; Surface characteristics; Thermal diffusivity; Thermal offset

Indexed keywords

MONITORING SYSTEM; PERMAFROST;

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

EID: 20444450163     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291950510020664     Document Type: Article

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