期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 16, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abfa4c
关键词
permafrost; soil moisture; active layer thickness; thaw depth; Alaska
资金
- NASA [NNX10AR63G, NNX06AE65G, NNX13AM25G, NNX17AC59A]
- NOAA [NA09OAR4310063]
- NSF [ARC 1204167]
- Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE Arctic) project - Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the U.S. DOE Office of Science
- NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program [80NSSC18K0983]
- NASA [NNX13AM25G, NNX10AR63G, 125421, 468861] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
The influence of soil moisture on the active layer thickness (ALT) in permafrost areas is determined by the competing hypotheses of increased latent heat of fusion and increased soil thermal conductivity. Analysis of the Field Measurements of Soil Moisture and Active Layer Thickness (SMALT) dataset in Alaska and Canada reveals that bulk volumetric water content affects ALT by influencing both latent heat and thermal conductivity, with regional temperature variations playing a role in baseline thaw depth.
Active layer thickness (ALT) is a critical metric for monitoring permafrost. How soil moisture influences ALT depends on two competing hypotheses: (a) increased soil moisture increases the latent heat of fusion for thaw, resulting in shallower active layers, and (b) increased soil moisture increases soil thermal conductivity, resulting in deeper active layers. To investigate their relative influence on thaw depth, we analyzed the Field Measurements of Soil Moisture and Active Layer Thickness (SMALT) in Alaska and Canada dataset, consisting of thousands of measurements of thaw depth and soil moisture collected at dozens of sites across Alaska and Canada as part of NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE). As bulk volumetric water content (VWC) integrated over the entire active layer increases, ALT decreases, supporting the latent heat hypothesis. However, as VWC in the top 12 cm of soil increases, ALT increases, supporting the thermal conductivity hypothesis. Regional temperature variations determine the baseline thaw depth while precipitation may influence the sensitivity of ALT to changes in VWC. Soil latent heat dominates over thermal conductivity in determining ALT, and the effect of bulk VWC on ALT appears consistent across sites.
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