Abstract: One of the consequences of warming climate is rising ground temperatures and degradation of perennially frozen ground, permafrost. Thawing of near-surface permafrost can cause geohazards, such as ground subsidence, thaw settlement and thermokarst, potentially harmful to nature and human activity in the Arctic. This dataset contains high-resolution raster grids of near-future permafrost extent and geohazard potential for the Northern Hemisphere permafrost areas. Ground temperature was predicted with statistical models employing geospatial data o...
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Earth science
Physical geography
Climatology