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Observed permafrost temperatures from selected boreholes in European mountains

Figure Created 24 Apr 2014 Published 19 Jun 2014 Last modified 21 Dec 2016

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Topics: Climate change adaptation

The figure shows trends in observed permafrost temperatures from 10 m (left) and 20 m (right) depth for selected boreholes in European mountains: the sites include the PACE transect and two additional sites in the Swiss Alps(and two in Norway (Dovrefjell and Iskoras).

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Metadata

Methodology:: PERMOS. 2013. Permafrost in Switzerland 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. Ed. Jeannette Noetzli. Glaciological Report (Permafrost) 10/11. Cryospheric Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, 80 pp.
Units:: °C
Rights:: All temperature data (i.e, borehole and GST data) in the PERMOS Data Archive is considered public domain for non Commercial use. Commercial use of the data requires a particular contract with
PERMOS and is otherwise prohibited. Public domain data is freely accessible via PERMOS.

Acknowledgment for PERMOS data in publications is available here:
http://www.permos.ch/downloads/PERMOS_DataPolicy.pdf
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 Norwegian sites by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.