Permafrost extent for the Northern Hemisphere, v4.0 from MODIS LST, ERA5, 1997-2021

Westermann, Sebastian; Barboux, Chloé; Bartsch, Annett; Delaloye, Reynald; Grosse, Guido; Heim, Birgit; Hugelius, Gustaf; Irrgang, Anna; Kääb, Andreas Max; Matthes, Heidrun; Nitze, Ingmar; Pellet, Cécile; Seifert, Frank Martin; Strozzi, Tazio; Wegmüller, Urs; Wieczorek, Mareike; Wiesmann, Andreas

This dataset contains v4.0 permafrost extent data produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Permafrost project. It forms part of the third version of their Climate Research Data Package (CRDP v3). It is derived from a thermal model driven and constrained by satellite data. CRDPv3 covers the years from 1997 to 2021. Grid products of CDRP v3 are released in annual files, covering the start to the end of the Julian year. This corresponds to average annual ground temperatures (at 2 m depth) which forms the basis for the retrieval of yearly fraction of permafrost-underlain and permafrost-free area within a pixel. A classification according to the IPA (International Permafrost Association) zonation delivers the well-known permafrost zones, distinguishing isolated (0-10%) sporadic (10-50%), discontinuous (50-90%) and continuous permafrost (90-100%).

Case A: It covers the Northern Hemisphere (north of 30°) for the period 2003-2021 based on MODIS Land Surface temperature merged with downscaled ERA5 reanalysis near-surface air temperature data.

Case B: It covers the Northern Hemisphere (north of 30°) for the period 1997-2002 based on downscaled ERA5 reanalysis near-surface air temperature data which are bias-corrected with the Case A product for the overlap period 2003-2021 using a pixel-specific statistics for each day of the year.

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Westermann, S.; Barboux, C.; Bartsch, A.; Delaloye, R.; Grosse, G.; Heim, B.; Hugelius, G.; Irrgang, A.; Kääb, A.M.; Matthes, H.; Nitze, I.; Pellet, C.; Seifert, F.M.; Strozzi, T.; Wegmüller, U.; Wieczorek, M.; Wiesmann, A. (2024): ESA Permafrost Climate Change Initiative (Permafrost_cci): Permafrost extent for the Northern Hemisphere, v4.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 04 April 2024. doi:10.5285/93444bc1c4364a59869e004bf9bfd94a. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/93444bc1c4364a59869e004bf9bfd94a

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Additional Info

Field Value
Identifier DOI:10.5285/93444bc1c4364a59869e004bf9bfd94a
Project(s) ESA Permafrost Climate Change Initiative Project (Permafrost_cci)
Institute University of Oslo
Source https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/93444bc1c4364a59869e004bf9bfd94a
Publication Date 2024-04-03
Version v4.0
Product Permafrost Extent
Sensor MODIS MOD11A1 and MYD11A1 level 3 Collection 6, ESA CCI Land Cover dataset v1.6.1, ERA5 Reanalysis
Files
  1. Permafrost extent per year
Variables [Units]
  1. PFR: permafrost_area_fraction [percent]
  2. PFR_uncertainty: uncertainty of permafrost fraction [percent]
  3. time: time [hours since 1950-01-01 00:00:00]
  4. lat: latitude [degrees_north]
  5. lon: longitude [degrees_east]
Region Circum-Arctic
Spatial Reference EPSG:4326 WGS 84
Spatial Resolution 1000 m
Spatial Coverage Latitude 25.00 to 85.00, Longitude -180.00 to 180.00
Temporal Coverage 1997-01-01T00:00:00 - 2021-12-31T00:00:00
Temporal Resolution July-August
Format NetCDF
Is Supplement To

Westermann, S.; Barboux, C.; Bartsch, A.; Delaloye, R.; Grosse, G.; Heim, B.; Hugelius, G.; Irrgang, A.; Kääb, A.M.; Matthes, H.; Nitze, I.; Pellet, C.; Seifert, F.M.; Strozzi, T.; Wegmüller, U.; Wieczorek, M.; Wiesmann, A. (2024): ESA Permafrost Climate Change Initiative (Permafrost_cci): Permafrost version 4 data products. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7479606004d9465bad949671501e5f21
Related to

Obu, J.; Westermann, S.; Barboux, C.; Bartsch, A.; Delaloye, R.; Grosse, G.; Heim, B.; Hugelius, G.; Irrgang, A.; Kääb, A.M.; Kroisleitner, C.; Matthes, H.; Nitze, I.; Pellet, C.; Seifert, F.M.; Strozzi, T.; Wegmüller, U.; Wieczorek, M.; Wiesmann, A. (2021): ESA Permafrost Climate Change Initiative (Permafrost_cci): Permafrost extent for the Northern Hemisphere, v3.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 28 June 2021. doi:10.5285/6e2091cb0c8b4106921b63cd5357c97c. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/6e2091cb0c8b4106921b63cd5357c97c

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