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Ground temperature and snow depth variability within a subarctic peat plateau landscape

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Subarctic permafrost peatlands cover extensive areas and store large amounts of soil organic carbon that can be remobilized as active layer deepening and thermokarst formation increase in a future warmer climate. Better knowledge of ground thermal variability within these ecosystems is important for understanding future landscape development and permafrost carbon feedbacks. In a peat plateau complex in Tavvavuoma, northern Sweden, ground temperatures and snow depth have been monitored in six different landscape units: on a peat plateau, in a depression within a peat plateau, along a peat plateau edge (close to a thermokarst lake), at a thermokarst lake shoreline, in a thermokarst lake and in a fen. Permafrost is present in all three peat plateau landscape units, and mean annual ground temperature (MAGT) in the central parts of the peat plateau is −0.3°C at 2 m depth. In the three low‐lying wetter or saturated landscape units (along the thermokarst lake shoreline, in the lake and the fen) taliks are present and MAGT at 1 m depth is 1.0–2.7°C. Topographical differences between the elevated and low‐lying units affect both local snow depth and soil moisture, and are important for ground thermal patterns in this landscape. Permafrost exists in landscape units with a shallow mean December–April snow depth ( 40 cm mostly result in absence of permafrost.

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  • A. Britta K. Sannel, 2020. "Ground temperature and snow depth variability within a subarctic peat plateau landscape," Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 31(2), pages 255-263, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:perpro:v:31:y:2020:i:2:p:255-263
    DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2045
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