Permafrost Extent and Ground Temperature Map, 2000-2016, Northern Hemisphere Permafrost

Obu, Jaroslav; Westermann, Sebastian; Kääb, Andreas; Bartsch, Annett

The product provides modeled mean annual ground temperatures (MAGT) at the top of the permafrost for the Northern Hemisphere at 1 km spatial resolution. Permafrost probability (fraction values from 0 to 1) is assigned to each grid cell with MAGT < 0°C. Based on its permafrost probability each grid cell is classified as continuous, discontinuous and sporadic permafrost. The processing extent covers exposed land areas of Northern Hemisphere down to 25 ° latitude. The mean MAGT was validated with GTN-P and TSP borehole ground temperature data yielded RMS of 2.0 °C. According to the results permafrost (MAGT < 0 °C) covers 15 % of exposed land of the Northern Hemisphere.

The NetCDF files contain resampled data from GeoTiffs (see initial product guide) to approx. 5, 10 and 25 km spatial resolution (available as separate files). The data are in pretended regular lat-lon-grid from and contain both metric x and y coordinates in addition to geographic (latitude and longitude) coordinates. Each NetCDF file contains mean annual ground temperature (variable name: MAGT) dataset, permafrost occurrence probability dataset (variable name: PerProb) and standard deviation of mean annual ground temperature dataset (variable name: SD).

More Information about the product and it´s modelling method can be found in the product guide.

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Obu, Jaroslav

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Additional Info

Field Value
Identifier DOI:10.1594/PANGAEA.888600
Project(s) ESA GlobPermafrost
Institute University of Oslo
Source https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.888600
Publication Date 2018-04-17
Version 5.0
Product Permafrost Extent and Properties
Sensor
Files
  1. Mean Annual Ground Temperature (MAGT)
  2. MAGT Standard Deviation
  3. Permafrost Probability Fraction
  4. Permafrost Zonation
  5. 5 km resolution NetCDF file
  6. 10 km resolution NetCDF file
  7. 25 km resolution NetCDF file
Variables [Units]
  1. Mean Annual Ground Temperature (MAGT) [C°]
  2. MAGT Standard Deviation [C°]
  3. Permafrost Probability [Fraction]: 0-1
  4. Permafrost Zones [Classes]: Continuous, Disontinuous, Isolated, Sporadic
Region Circum-Arctic
Spatial Reference EPSG:3995 WGS 84 / Arctic Polar Stereographic
Spatial Resolution 1000 m
Spatial Coverage Latitude -9.89 to 90.00, Longitude -180.00 to 180.00
Temporal Coverage 2000-2016
Temporal Resolution
Format Geotiff, NetCDF
Is Supplement To
Related to

Dataset extent

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