Permafrost Vocabularies

Permafrost Vocabularies

active-layer thickness

Link: http://w3id.org/permafrost/v/illustrateddictionary/activelayerthickness

Within: An Illustrated Permafrost Dictionary

Definition: The thickness of the layer of the ground over permafrost that thaws in summer and freezes in winter.

Term active-layer thickness en
Comment Did you know? Permafrost scientists measure active-layer thickness every year at many sites in the Arctic, Antarctic and high mountains as an indicator of climate change (see https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/CALM) en
dcterms:source https://doi.org/10.52381/CPA.permafrostdictionary.1 xsd:anyURI

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