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The thermal conductivity (TC) of the snow and top soil greatly impacts the permafrost energy budget. We report the first winter-long monitoring of snow and soil TC in the high Arctic.
The data and field observations show the formation of a highly insulating basal depth hoar layer overlaid by a more conductive wind slab. Detailed snow physics models developed for alpine snow cannot reproduce observations because they neglect the strong upward vertical water vapor flux prevailing in Arctic snow.
The thermal conductivity (TC) of the snow and top soil greatly impacts the permafrost energy...
Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
The Cryosphere, 10, 2573–2588, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2573-2016
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
The Cryosphere, 10, 2573–2588, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2573-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article 02 Nov 2016
Research article | 02 Nov 2016
Seasonal evolution of the effective thermal conductivity of the snow and the soil in high Arctic herb tundra at Bylot Island, Canada
Florent Domine et al.
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- Improving the Noah‐MP Model for Simulating Hydrothermal Regime of the Active Layer in the Permafrost Regions of the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau X. Li et al. 10.1029/2020JD032588
- The growth of shrubs on high Arctic tundra at Bylot Island: impact on snow physical properties and permafrost thermal regime F. Domine et al. 10.5194/bg-13-6471-2016
- Sentinel-1 based soil freeze/thaw estimation in boreal forest environments J. Cohen et al. 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112267
- What is the Trade-Off between Snowpack Stratification and Simulated Snow Water Equivalent in a Physically-Based Snow Model? J. Augas et al. 10.3390/w12123449
- ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks G. Krinner et al. 10.5194/gmd-11-5027-2018
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The thermal conductivity (TC) of the snow and top soil greatly impacts the permafrost energy budget. We report the first winter-long monitoring of snow and soil TC in the high Arctic.
The data and field observations show the formation of a highly insulating basal depth hoar layer overlaid by a more conductive wind slab. Detailed snow physics models developed for alpine snow cannot reproduce observations because they neglect the strong upward vertical water vapor flux prevailing in Arctic snow.
The thermal conductivity (TC) of the snow and top soil greatly impacts the permafrost energy...
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