Sharon L. Smith

TL;DR: Climate change strongly impacts regions in high latitudes and altitudes that store high amounts of carbon in yet frozen ground, and the authors show that the consequence of these changes is global warming of permafrost at depths greater than 10 m in the Northern Hemisphere, in mountains, and in Antarctica.

TL;DR: The permafrost monitoring network in the polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere was enhanced during the International Polar Year (IPY) as discussed by the authors, and new information was collected for regions where there was little available.

TL;DR: A snapshot of the thermal state of permafrost in northern North America during the International Polar Year (IPY) was developed using ground temperature data collected from 350 boreholes as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The results from the thermal monitoring sites maintained by the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) and other federal government agencies are presented in this paper, which indicate that the response of permafrost temperature to recent climate change and variability varies across the Canadian perma-rost region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an emerging system for comprehensive monitoring of permafrost temperatures, a system which is needed for timely detection of worldwide changes in permaferost stability, and for predictions of negative consequences of permafeur degradation.