Effect of Snow Cover on the Active-Layer Thermal Regime – A Case Study from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 307-315

  Hrbáček, Filip ^a   Láska, Kamil ^a   Engel, Zbyněk ^b  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

active layer thickness; active layer; air temperature; Antarctic Peninsula; ground temperature; snow cover

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AIR TEMPERATURE; GROUND FREEZING; ICE THICKNESS; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL REGIME;

ANTARCTICA; JAMES ROSS ISLAND; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84985906399     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1871     Document Type: Article

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