Ground thermal regime and permafrost distribution under a changing climate in Northern Norway

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-38

  Farbrot, Herman ^a   Isaksen, Ketil ^b   Etzelmüller, Bernd ^a   Gisnås, Kjersti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mountain permafrost; Northern Norway; Palsa; Permafrost modelling; Permafrost monitoring; Permafrost warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAT FLOW; LITTLE ICE AGE; PERMAFROST; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

FINNMARK; NORWAY; TROMS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84875053222     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1763     Document Type: Article

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