1. March 2009The first Norwegian permafrost database, NORPERM, is now online and ready for use!Contact person for additional information: Hanne H. Christiansen Text by Hanne H. Christiansen, UNIS
In
the TSP NORWAY project we collect continuously data from our 24 instrumented
boreholes and from more than 100 miniature temperature dataloggers in different
permafrost landforms, all to better observe the permafrost and active layer
temperature in our field observatories established in
Startpage for the English version of the NORPERM database for Svalbard. Click here to open the English version of the database. Click here to open the Norwegian version.
Startpage for the English version of the NORPERM database for Norway. Click here to open the English version of the database. Click here to open the Norwegian version.
Using the NORPERM database, using a map, you can search the TSP NORWAY nvestigation area and find the location of the permafrost boreholes, and then directly also have the data presented either in table form or as graphs. You can also study photographs of the borehole sites and read a general description of the data. This will be a very powerful tool for our further permafrost temperature studies in the TSP Norway project. The database development has been carried out by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU). The TSP NORWAY post.doc responsible for the TSP database, Håvard Juliussen, UNIS, have worked with assisting the NGU in developing and adjusting the database almost since the beginning of IPY 2 years ago. Thus it is very nice that we, at the end of the observational IPY period in March 2009, have now reached the stage, where our first year of permafrost data is available for all interested. Data from NORPERM can be quickly and directly exported to the international TSP database, Global Terrestrial Network on Permafrost (GTN-P). When using the data you will have to fully reference the TSP NORWAY responsible scientist(s). IPY
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