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Observed permafrost temperatures from selected boreholes in European mountains

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The figure shows observed permafrost temperatures from 10 m (left) and 20 m (right) depth and their evolution for selected boreholes in European mountains: the sites of the PACE transect and two additional sites in Switzerland (Matterhorn and M.d. Barba Peider) and one in Norway (Dovrefjell).

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Methodology:: PERMOS. 2010. Permafrost in Switzerland 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. Ed. Jeannette Noetzli and Daniel Vonder Muehll. Glaciological Report (Permafrost) 8/9. Cryospheric Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
Units:: °C
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: Permafrost Monitoring Switzerland (PERMOS); University of Zurich
Figure type:: Graph

Additional information

temporal coverage: varying lengths of data series

Data for the Swiss sites are provided by the Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network (PERMOS), data for the scandinavian sites by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute