Permafrost (from perma- 'permanent' and frost) is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below 0 °C (32 °F) for two years or more: the...
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Permafrost Kingdom (Russian: Ца́рство ве́чной мерзлоты́) is a tourist complex in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia. Established in 2005, the complex is located...
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Look up permafrost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Permafrost is permanently frozen ground found in periglacial zones. Permafrost may also refer to:...
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dioxide in the permafrost, making the tundra soil a carbon sink. As global warming heats the ecosystem and causes soil thawing, the permafrost carbon cycle...
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Beyond the Permafrost is the second full-length album by American metal band Skeletonwitch. The album blends thrash metal and influence from the NWOBHM...
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The permafrost carbon cycle or Arctic carbon cycle is a sub-cycle of the larger global carbon cycle. Permafrost is defined as subsurface material that...
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Utsjoki (section Permafrost)
the ground and the development of permafrost. Palsas are a typical permafrost feature in northern Finland. Permafrost formation in palsas is dictated by...
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Karl Ernst von Baer (section Permafrost research)
expeditions, the scientific investigation of permafrost began in Russia. Baer recorded the importance of permafrost research even before 1837 when observing...
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Active layer (redirect from Active permafrost layer)
In environments containing permafrost, the active layer is the top layer of soil that thaws during the summer and freezes again during the autumn. In all...
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Cryosphere (section Frozen ground and permafrost)
snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost). Thus, there is a overlap with the hydrosphere. The cryosphere is an...
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species preserved as permafrost mummies. It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic...
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slightly colder). Yakutsk is also the largest city located in continuous permafrost; the only other large city is Norilsk, also in Siberia. Yakutsk is located...
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Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (redirect from Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment)
antecedent organizations whose purpose was to understand frozen ground, permafrost, snow and ice as factors which were important in strategic northern areas...
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Palsa (redirect from Permafrost plateau)
a typical phenomenon in the polar and subpolar zone of discontinuous permafrost. One of their characteristics is having steep slopes that rise above the...
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Denali National Park and Preserve (section Permafrost)
had near-surface permafrost, or an active permafrost layer, in the 1950s. In the 2000s, around 50% of Denali had near-surface permafrost. It is suspected...
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Batagaika crater (category Permafrost)
crater is a thermokarst depression in the Chersky Range area. The biggest permafrost crater in the world, it administratively belongs to the Sakha Republic...
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Permafrost is the farthest north literary journal in the United States. Based out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Permafrost publishes poetry,...
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winter. Higher up, widespread permafrost may be expected at altitudes with a MAAT of −3.5 °C (25.5 °F), continuous permafrost at altitudes with a MAAT of...
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Static Shock (redirect from Permafrost (Static Shock))
Static Shock is an American superhero animated television series based on the Milestone Media/DC Comics superhero Static. It premiered on September 23...
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Thermokarst (category Permafrost)
irregular surfaces of marshy hollows and small hummocks formed when ice-rich permafrost thaws. The land surface type occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller...
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Jotunheimen (section Climate, glaciers and permafrost)
5 °C indicates areas with occurrences of widespread mountain permafrost. Thus, permafrost existis in large parts of Jotunheimen due its more continental...
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Permafrost and Periglacial Processes is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on permafrost and periglacial geomorphology. It...
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diameter. They are typically conical in shape and grow and persist only in permafrost environments, such as the Arctic and subarctic. A pingo is a periglacial...
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Climate change in the Arctic (section Permafrost thaw)
accelerating melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the thawing of the permafrost landscape.: 2321 These ongoing transformations are expected to be irreversible...
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Permafrost is the third solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Considered by many[who?] as his greatest work, he further develops...
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peatlands is permafrost-affected, and this area represents around a tenth of the total permafrost area, and also a tenth (185 ± 66 Gt) of all permafrost carbon...
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Climate of Svalbard (section Permafrost)
the warm periods. Permafrost is ground that is permanently frozen, which most of the land in the Arctic is. Monitoring of permafrost in Svalbard is an...
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and it was built with special, durable tracks since much of it ran over permafrost. Due to the severe terrain, weather, length and cost, Soviet general secretary...
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Arctic methane emissions (category Permafrost)
the Arctic, the main human-influenced sources of methane are thawing permafrost, Arctic sea ice melting, clathrate breakdown and Greenland ice sheet melting...
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30% of the Earth's surface was covered by ice. In addition, a zone of permafrost stretched southward from the edge of the glacial sheet, a few hundred...
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