Permafrost Vocabularies

Permafrost Vocabularies

An Illustrated Permafrost Dictionary

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<p>A machine-readable representation of the definitions described in <a href='https://doi.org/10.52381/CPA.permafrostdictionary.1'>An Illustrated Permafrost Dictionary</a>.</p> <p>The Illustrated Permafrost Dictionary includes definitions for 100 terms relating to permafrost environments. It is intended to meet the needs of non-specialists interested in permafrost, including northerners (Indigenous and non-Indigenous), students, policymakers, the media, and the general public in Canada and elsewhere. </p>

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Description <p>A machine-readable representation of the definitions described in <a href='https://doi.org/10.52381/CPA.permafrostdictionary.1'>An Illustrated Permafrost Dictionary</a>.</p> <p>The Illustrated Permafrost Dictionary includes definitions for 100 terms relating to permafrost environments. It is intended to meet the needs of non-specialists interested in permafrost, including northerners (Indigenous and non-Indigenous), students, policymakers, the media, and the general public in Canada and elsewhere. </p> rdf:HTML
Modified 2025-01-01 xsd:date
Created 2024-06-06 xsd:date
ns3:contributor Stephen A. Wolfe en
Pascale Roy-Léveillée en
Antoni G. Lewkowicz en
Stephan Gruber en
Cassandra Koenig en
Philip Bonnaventure en
Vladislav E. Roujanski en
Ed Hoeve en
Michel Paquette en
H. Brendan O'Neill en
Heather Brooks en
Ashley Rudy en
Nicholas Brown en
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Source https://doi.org/10.52381/CPA.permafrostdictionary.1 xsd:anyURI
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Concepts
  1. active layer
  2. active-layer detachment failure
  3. active-layer thickness
  4. adfreeze pile
  5. air-cooled embankment
  6. albedo
  7. aufeis
  8. beaded stream
  9. buried ice
  10. continuous permafrost
  11. continuous permafrost zone
  12. creep of frozen ground
  13. cryosphere
  14. cryostratigraphy
  15. cryostructure
  16. debris flow
  17. discontinuous permafrost
  18. discontinuous permafrost zone
  19. drunken forest
  20. electrical resistivity tomography (ERT)
  21. excess ice
  22. food cellar
  23. freezeback
  24. freezing of ground
  25. frost action
  26. frost blister
  27. frost boil
  28. frost bulb
  29. frost heave
  30. frost jacking
  31. frost probe
  32. frost shattering
  33. frost sorting
  34. frost-stable ground
  35. frost-susceptible ground
  36. frozen ground
  37. geocryology
  38. geothermal gradient
  39. ground ice
  40. hummock
  41. hydraulic thawing
  42. ice lens
  43. ice vein
  44. ice wedge
  45. ice-poor permafrost
  46. ice-rich permafrost
  47. ice-wedge melt pond
  48. ice-wedge polygon
  49. isolated patches of permafrost zone
  50. isotherm
  51. lithalsa
  52. massive ice
  53. mean annual air temperature
  54. mountain permafrost
  55. muskeg
  56. near-surface permafrost
  57. palsa
  58. patterned ground
  59. peat
  60. peat plateau
  61. peatland
  62. permafrost
  63. permafrost aggradation
  64. permafrost base
  65. permafrost carbon
  66. permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks
  67. permafrost core sample
  68. permafrost degradation
  69. permafrost melt
  70. permafrost monitoring borehole
  71. permafrost table
  72. permafrost thaw
  73. permafrost thickness
  74. permafrost zone
  75. pingo
  76. pore ice
  77. radiator
  78. relict permafrost
  79. retrogressive thaw slump
  80. rock glacier
  81. saline permafrost
  82. seasonally frozen ground
  83. solifluction
  84. space frame foundation
  85. sporadic permafrost zone
  86. suprapermafrost groundwater
  87. talik
  88. thaw depth
  89. thaw settlement
  90. thaw slumping
  91. thaw tube
  92. thaw-sensitive permafrost
  93. thaw-stable ground
  94. thermal erosion
  95. thermokarst
  96. thermokarst lake
  97. thermosyphon
  98. trumpet curve
  99. utilidor
  100. yedoma