Temperature gradient distribution in permafrost active layer, using a prototype of the ground temperature sensor (REMS-MSL) on deception island (Antarctica)

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-32

  Ramos, M ^a   de Pablo, M A ^a   Sebastian, E ^b   Armiens, C ^b   Gomez Elvira J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active layer; IR temperature sensor; Maritime Antarctica; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ACTIVE VOLCANOES; ANTARCTICA; COLD CLIMATE; COLD REGIONS; CONDUCTION MODELS; CONTACT TEMPERATURE; DIRECT MEASURES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUTURE MISSION; GROUND TEMPERATURE; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY MISSIONS; MARTIAN SURFACE; MEAN ERRORS; MECHANICAL PROBING; SHALLOW BOREHOLES; SHORT AND LONG WAVE RADIATION; SOIL SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE PROBES; TEST INSTRUMENTS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC MATERIALS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH (PLANET); GEOLOGIC MODELS; INFRARED RADIATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; PERMAFROST; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; VOLCANOES;

INSTRUMENTS;

ACTIVE LAYER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PERMAFROST; SENSOR; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANTARCTICA; DECEPTION ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EID: 84856121256     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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