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Climate and permafrost

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  • M. K. Gavrilova

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Data from Yakutia, Siberia, indicate that permafrost has been generally stable for the last 300,000 years. Historic records indicate climatic variability in the last 150 years and predict that, in comparison with the 1980s, winters will be colder and summers warmer in the early part of the twenty‐first century. Predicted man‐induced climate warming, superimposed upon these natural trends, will offset the winter cooling, while summers will be even warmer. Changes in mean annual air temperatures for the mid twenty‐first century are calculated as being half the sum of the winter and summer temperature changes. Permafrost will be preserved in mountainous regions and in the eastern polar and subarctic plains. In western Siberia and subarctic eastern and southern Siberia considerable permafrost thawing will occur and near‐surface ground temperatures will rise. Des données de Yakoutie (Sibérie) indiquent que le pergélisol est généralement resté stable au cours des 300.000 dernières années. Des rapports historiques indiquent une variabilité climatique au cours des 150 dernières années et prédisent que par comparaison avec les données des années 1980, les hivers seront plus froids et les éés plus chauds au début du 21éme siècle. Le réchauffement climatique dǔ à l'homme, conjugué avec les tendances naturelles, effacera le refroidissement hivernal, tandis que les étés seront plus chauds. Des changements dans les températures moyennes annuelles de l'air, pour le milieu du 21éme siècle, sont calculés comme étant la moitié de la somme des changements d'hiver et d'été. Le pergélisol sera alors conservé dans les régions montagneuses et dans les plaines subarctiques et polaires de l'Est de la Sibérie. En Sibérie occidentale et dans la région subarctique de la Sibérie orientale et méridionale, un dégel considérable du pergélisol se produira et les températures du sol proche de la surface augmenteront.

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  • M. K. Gavrilova, 1993. "Climate and permafrost," Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 4(2), pages 99-111, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:perpro:v:4:y:1993:i:2:p:99-111
    DOI: 10.1002/ppp.3430040203
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