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Hugues Lantuit IPA Secretariat IPA Standing Committee on Data, Information and Communication

Hugues Lantuit IPA Secretariat IPA Standing Committee on Data, Information and Communication. "If the permafrost in Russia completely melts, it could completely transform the weather patterns on the planet, in some cases in very dangerous ways". Interview to ITAR-Tass, July 5, 2009.

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Hugues Lantuit IPA Secretariat IPA Standing Committee on Data, Information and Communication

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  1. Hugues Lantuit IPA Secretariat IPA Standing Committee on Data, Information and Communication

  2. "If the permafrost in Russia completely melts, it could completely transform the weather patterns on the planet, in some cases in very dangerous ways" Interview to ITAR-Tass, July 5, 2009

  3. Monitoring Polar Permafrost • Observed Parameters • Temperatures in boreholes, near-surface temperatures in the region (Thermal State of Permafrost, TSP) • Active Layer Thickness (Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring, CALM)

  4. Active layer measurements on CRREL plots starting in the 1960s and resumed in 1991. Data are from 1000 x 1000 m CALM grid on Barrow Environmental Observatory, Alaska. Supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, project #OPP-0352958.

  5. Observed temperature evolution of Alaska’s permafrost Temperatures at 20 m depth

  6. 0 1 2 3 m Borehole depth TSP Svalbard:Nordenskiöldsland Permafrost Observatory, Svalbard • CO2-boreholes • Dh1-CO2-07 & Dh2-CO2-07 • Logging 04-06 Dec 2007 • Dh4-CO2-09 • Logging 10-10 Oct 2009 • CO2-free Svalbard project • Endalen, solifluction 50 m asl • EN-B-1 • 19.7 m • Campbell instr. (±0.05°C) • Online data transfer • TSP-PYRN • UNISCALM 10 m asl • AS-B-1 • 10 m • Tinytags (±0.2°C) • AS-B-2 • 9.9 m • Geoprecision (±0.2°C) • TSP-PYRN • Innerhytte pingo • IP-B-1 • 19.1 m • Geoprecision.(±0.2°C) • Longyearbyen school • SK-B-1 • 9.3 m • Geoprecision (±0.2°C) • EPSCoR school project Longyeardalen and Adventdalen area • Kapp Linné • KL-B-1bedrock • 30 m • Campbell instr. (±0.05°C) • KL-B-2 sed./bedrock • 38.8m • Campbell instr. (±0.05°C) • KL-B-3 org./sed. • 4 m • Geoprecision (±0.2°C) • KL.B-4 snow in sed. • 2.8m • Tinytags • Janssonhaugen 270 m asl • JA-B-1 & JA-B-2 • PACE-project • 102 m & 15 m • Campbell instr. (±0.05°C) • Gruvefjellet 450 m asl • GF-B-1 • 5 m • Campbell instr. (±0.05°C) • Online data transfer Lunckefjell, 900 m asl LF-B-1 90 m • Larsbreen rock glacier • LB-B-1 • 11.5 m • Geoprecision (±0.2°C) • Borehole deformation meas. Breinosa 677 m asl BN-B-1 10 m GeoPrecision • Svea 15 m asl ice-cored moraine • SV-B-1, SV-B-2, SV-B-4 & SV-B-5 • 8 m • Lakewood (±0.1°C) • Road construction project • Snowpatch 10 m asl • SN-B-1 thin snow • 10 m • Geoprecision (±0.2°C) • Thin snowcover • SN-B-2 thick snow • 5.4 m • Geoprecision (±0.2°C) • Thick snow cover (2-3 m) • Drilled and instrumented 15 new holes for thermal monitoring, in total 265.5 m • Borehole depths ranging from 4 to 90 m • Borehole logging in deep CO2 project boreholes to 800 m

  7. Thermal snapshot 2008-2009 from continental and maritime Svalbard, different landforms

  8. Online permafrost temperatures from two boreholes in Svalbard NORPERM

  9. NORPERM = The Norwegian Permafrost Database tspnorway.com

  10. Monitoring Mountain Permafrost • European Monitoring Networks • Continental: PACE transect • National: Permafrost Monitoring Switzerland (PERMOS), TSP Norway • New boreholes in Alpine countries (PermaNET, e.g. Zugspitze, Aiguille du Midi) • Observed Parameters (e.g., in PERMOS) • Temperatures in boreholes, near-surface temperatures in the region • Ice and water content with ERT monitoring • Kinematics of creep processes (terrestrial survey and photogrammetry) • Inventory of rapid mass movements from permafrost areas

  11. PERMOS Borehole Temperatures source: permos

  12. Borehole Results 2009 PACE and PERMOS Site Schilthorn 2970 m asl, Bernese Alps Max. ALT 2003: 8.55 m Max. ALT 2009: 6.99 m source: permos

  13. Achievements and Challenges • New and re-activated boreholes and active layer measurements during the IPY • Pilot real-time ISO-compliant temperature database (NORPERM) • Standardization of methodologies and metadata format • Coordination largely based on the internal IPA structure, with limited institutional support • Data delivery limited to regional initiatives

  14. Future Strategy / Recommendations • GTN-P will devise a new strategy and action plan to address the growing dichotomy between its global reach and its current management capacity • GTN-P will provide a snapshot on the thermal state of permafrost under the leadership of the IPA for June 2010

  15. Questions to GTOS SC & Actions • GTOS SC to help identify the institutional partners with the capacity and expertise to host and support GTN-P’s central management. • Cooperation with GCW on potential synergies between GTN-P and the upcoming Global Permafrost Watch (GPW)

  16. Reports

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