Climate trends in the Arctic as observed from space

JC Comiso, DK Hall - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic is a region in transformation. Warming in the region has been amplified, as
expected from ice‐albedo feedback effects, with the rate of warming observed to be∼ …

Trends in satellite Earth observation for permafrost related analyses—A review

M Philipp, A Dietz, S Buchelt, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change and associated Arctic amplification cause a degradation of permafrost
which in turn has major implications for the environment. The potential turnover of frozen …

A new map of permafrost distribution on the Tibetan Plateau

D Zou, L Zhao, Y Sheng, J Chen, G Hu, T Wu… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has the largest areas of permafrost terrain in the mid-and low-
latitude regions of the world. Some permafrost distribution maps have been compiled but …

Cloudy-sky land surface temperature from VIIRS and MODIS satellite data using a surface energy balance-based method

A Jia, H Ma, S Liang, D Wang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Land surface temperature (LST) has been effectively retrieved from thermal infrared (TIR)
satellite measurements under clear-sky conditions. However, TIR satellite data are often …

The importance of understanding annual and shorter-term temperature patterns and variation in the surface levels of polar soils for terrestrial biota

P Convey, SJ Coulson, MR Worland, A Sjöblom - Polar Biology, 2018 - Springer
Ground temperatures in the top few centimetres of the soil profile are key in many biological
processes yet remain very poorly documented, especially in the polar regions or over longer …

Nitrification rates in Arctic soils are associated with functionally distinct populations of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

RJE Alves, W Wanek, A Zappe, A Richter… - The ISME …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The functioning of Arctic soil ecosystems is crucially important for global climate, and basic
knowledge regarding their biogeochemical processes is lacking. Nitrogen (N) is the major …

Reconstructing daily clear-sky land surface temperature for cloudy regions from MODIS data

L Sun, Z Chen, F Gao, M Anderson, L Song… - Computers & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Land surface temperature (LST) is a critical parameter in environmental studies and
resource management. The MODIS LST data product has been widely used in various …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the mechanisms of heat wave vulnerability at the urban scale based on the application of big data and artificial societies

C He, L Ma, L Zhou, HD Kan, Y Zhang, WC Ma… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanisation has altered the vulnerability of urban areas to heat wave disasters.
There is an urgent need to identify the factors underlying the effect of heat waves on human …

A 20-year record (1998–2017) of permafrost, active layer and meteorological conditions at a high Arctic permafrost research site (Bayelva, Spitsbergen)

J Boike, I Juszak, S Lange, S Chadburn… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Most permafrost is located in the Arctic, where frozen organic carbon makes it an important
component of the global climate system. Despite the fact that the Arctic climate changes …

Comparison of MODIS-derived land surface temperatures with ground surface and air temperature measurements in continuous permafrost terrain

S Hachem, CR Duguay, M Allard - The Cryosphere, 2012 - tc.copernicus.org
Obtaining high resolution records of surface temperature from satellite sensors is important
in the Arctic because meteorological stations are scarce and widely scattered in those vast …