Permafrost: Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground Ice Conditions

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Permafrost: Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground Ice Conditions
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The circumpolar permafrost and ground ice data contribute to a unified international data set that depicts the distribution and properties of permafrost and ground ice in the Northern Hemisphere (20°N to 90°N). The re-gridded data set shows discontinuous, sporadic, or isolated permafrost boundaries.

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Suggested Data Citation
  1. Brown, J., O.J. Ferrians, Jr., J.A. Heginbottom, and E.S. Melnikov. 1998, revised February 2001. Circum-arctic map of permafrost and ground ice conditions. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology. Digital media.

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Acknowledgement of any material taken from or knowledge gained from this page is appreciated:

National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified "The Climate Data Guide: Permafrost: Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground Ice Conditions.” Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/permafrost-circum-arctic-map-permafrost-and-ground-ice-conditions on 2024-03-28.


Citation of datasets is separate and should be done according to the data providers' instructions. If known to us, data citation instructions are given in the Data Access section, above.


Acknowledgement of the Climate Data Guide project is also appreciated:

Schneider, D. P., C. Deser, J. Fasullo, and K. E. Trenberth, 2013: Climate Data Guide Spurs Discovery and Understanding. Eos Trans. AGU, 94, 121–122, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013eo130001

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Climate Data Guide Image: Permafriost

Circum-Arctic Map of permafrost and ground ice conditions; 12.5 km grid. Climate Data Guide; D. Shea)

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12.5km, 25km, 0.5 degree

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