Temperatures in two boreholes at Flüela Pass, eastern Swiss Alps : the effect of snow redistribution on permafrost distribution patterns in high mountain areas
Alps (The) ; Avalanche ; Mountain ; Numerical model ; Periglacial features ; Permafrost ; Simulation ; Snow ; Snow cover ; Switzerland ; Temperature ; Vegetation
, particularly the redistribution of snow by avalanches and wind on soil temperature and the development of permafrost. The results of the study are based on a comparative approach of surveys within and outside the permafrost body at Flüela Pass. A theoretical
Active layer ; Air mass ; Air temperature ; Alps (The) ; Glacier ; Micromorphology ; Mountain ; Rock glacier ; Snow cover ; Switzerland ; Temperature ; Thermal regime ; Winter
amount of snow. Active layer temperatures are examined together with climate data and are used to discuss the processes which control the thermal regime of an active layer on a slope of a bouldery rock glacier surface : snow cover, snow depth, non-linear
Cold area ; Geophysics ; Ground survey ; Mountain ; Norway ; Periglacial features ; Permafrost ; Snow cover ; Spatial distribution ; Temperature
permafrost. The good agreement with temperature-based methods validates empirical approaches such as the relation between bottom temperature of snow cover (BTS) and permafrost occurences, and further supports the findings from the geophysical surveys.