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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2087-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2087-2019
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Research article
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01 Aug 2019
Research article |
| 01 Aug 2019
| 01 Aug 2019
Permafrost variability over the Northern Hemisphere based on the MERRA-2 reanalysis
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
now at: Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
now at: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Randal D. Koster
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Rolf H. Reichle
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Barton A. Forman
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Yuan Xue
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
now at: Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Richard H. Chen
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Mahta Moghaddam
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Latest update: 29 May 2025
Short summary
The active layer thickness (ALT) in middle-to-high northern latitudes from 1980 to 2017 was produced at 81 km2 resolution by a global land surface model (NASA's CLSM) with forcing fields from a reanalysis data set, MERRA-2. The simulated permafrost distribution and ALTs agree reasonably well with an observation-based map and in situ measurements, respectively. The accumulated above-freezing air temperature and maximum snow water equivalent explain most of the year-to-year variability of ALT.
The active layer thickness (ALT) in middle-to-high northern latitudes from 1980 to 2017 was...
