What determines the current presence or absence of permafrost in the Torneträsk region, a sub-Arctic landscape in Northern Sweden?

Ambio

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 190-197

  Johansson, Margareta ^a,b   Christensen, Torben R ^a   Akerman, H Jonas ^a   Callaghan, Terry V ^a,b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ABISKO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STATION   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; METHANE; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; METHANE; MICROCLIMATE; PERMAFROST;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLANT; SOIL; SWEDEN; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; ICE; METHANE; PLANTS; SOIL; SWEDEN; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33748430968     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[190:WDTCPO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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61. Håkan Samuelsson kindly drafted Figures 3 and 4. Thanks to Christer Jonasson for contributing with the photo of Kårsaglaciären in Figure 3. This work was partly funded by the EU financed project ALARM - Assessing Large Scale Environmental Risks for Biodiversity with Tested Methods, contract GOCE-CT-2003-506675.