Rights statement: An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2018 American Geophysical Union. Keating, K., Binley, A., Bense, V., Van Dam, R. L., & Christiansen, H. H. (2018). Combined geophysical measurements provide evidence for unfrozen water in permafrost in the Adventdalen valley in Svalbard. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017GL076508 To view the published open abstract, go to http://dx.doi.org and enter the DOI.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Combined Geophysical Measurements Provide Evidence for Unfrozen Water in Permafrost in the Adventdalen Valley in Svalbard
AU - Keating, Kristina
AU - Binley, Andrew Mark
AU - Bense, Victor
AU - Van Dam, Remke
AU - Christiansen, Hanne
N1 - An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2018 American Geophysical Union. Keating, K., Binley, A., Bense, V., Van Dam, R. L., & Christiansen, H. H. (2018). Combined geophysical measurements provide evidence for unfrozen water in permafrost in the Adventdalen valley in Svalbard. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017GL076508 To view the published open abstract, go to http://dx.doi.org and enter the DOI.
PY - 2018/8/16
Y1 - 2018/8/16
N2 - Quantifying the unfrozen water content of permafrost is critical for assessing impacts of surface warming on the reactivation of groundwater flow and release of greenhouse gasses from degrading permafrost. Unfrozen water content was determined along an ~12-km transect in the Adventdalen valley in Svalbard, an area with continuous permafrost, using surface nuclear magnetic resonance and controlled source audio-magnetotelluric data. This combination of measurements allowed for differentiation of saline from fresh pore water, and frozen from unfrozen pore water. Above the limit of Holocene marine transgression, no unfrozen water was detected, associated with high electrical resistivity. Below the marine limit, within several kilometers of the coast, up to ~10% unfrozen water content was detected, associated with low resistivity values indicating saline pore water. These results provide evidence for unfrozen water within continuous, thick permafrost in coastal settings, which has implications for groundwater flow and greenhouse gas release in similar Arctic environments.
AB - Quantifying the unfrozen water content of permafrost is critical for assessing impacts of surface warming on the reactivation of groundwater flow and release of greenhouse gasses from degrading permafrost. Unfrozen water content was determined along an ~12-km transect in the Adventdalen valley in Svalbard, an area with continuous permafrost, using surface nuclear magnetic resonance and controlled source audio-magnetotelluric data. This combination of measurements allowed for differentiation of saline from fresh pore water, and frozen from unfrozen pore water. Above the limit of Holocene marine transgression, no unfrozen water was detected, associated with high electrical resistivity. Below the marine limit, within several kilometers of the coast, up to ~10% unfrozen water content was detected, associated with low resistivity values indicating saline pore water. These results provide evidence for unfrozen water within continuous, thick permafrost in coastal settings, which has implications for groundwater flow and greenhouse gas release in similar Arctic environments.
KW - Arctic
KW - coastal
KW - permafrost
KW - Svalbard
KW - SNMR
KW - CSAMT
U2 - 10.1029/2017GL076508
DO - 10.1029/2017GL076508
M3 - Journal article
VL - 45
SP - 7606
EP - 7614
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
SN - 0094-8276
IS - 15
ER -