Permafrost is a key element of the cryosphere and an essential climate variable in the
Global Climate Observing System. There is no remote-sensing method available to reliably …

Abstract Changes in the frequency and extent of wildfires are expected to lead to substantial
and irreversible alterations to permafrost landscapes under a warming climate. Here we …

Resistivity and induced polarization methods are used for a wide range of near-surface
applications, including hydrogeology, civil engineering and archaeology, as well as …

The Arctic may seem remote, but the unprecedented environmental changes occurring there
have important consequences for global society. Of all Arctic system components, changes …

In boreal and arctic regions, forest fires exert great influences on biogeochemical processes,
hydrothermal dynamics of the active layer and near-surface permafrost, and subsequent …

Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a minimally invasive geophysical method that
produces a model of subsurface resistivity from a large number of electrical resistance …

Mountain permafrost is sensitive to climate change and is expected to gradually degrade in
response to the ongoing atmospheric warming trend. Long-term monitoring of the permafrost …

Palsas and peat plateaus are permafrost landforms occurring in subarctic mires which
constitute sensitive ecosystems with strong significance for vegetation, wildlife, hydrology …

This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground
called permafrost. Frozen ground is the product of cold climates as well as a variety of …

Permafrost underlies one-quarter of the Northern Hemisphere but is at increasing risk of
thaw from climate warming. Recent studies across the Arctic have identified areas of rapid …