Spatial predictions of pingo, ice-wedge polygon and rock glacier occurrence across the circumpolar permafrost region for recent and future periods

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This dataset contains spatial predictions of the potential environmental spaces for pingos, ice-wedge polygons and rock glaciers across the Northern Hemisphere permafrost areas. The potential environmental spaces, i.e. conditions where climate, topography and soil properties are suitable for landform presence, were predicted with statistical ensemble modelling employing geospatial data on environmental conditions at 30 arc-second resolution (~1 km). In addition to the baseline period (1950-2000), the predictions are provided for 2041-2060 and 2061-2080 using climate-forcing scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways 4.5 and 8.5). The resulting dataset consists of five spatial predictions for each landform in GeoTIFF format.The data provide new information on 1) the fine-scale spatial distribution of permafrost landforms in the Northern Hemisphere, 2) the potential future alterations in the environmental suitability for permafrost landforms due to climate change, and 3) the circumpolar distribution of various ground ice types, and can 4) facilitate efforts to inventory permafrost landforms in incompletely mapped areas.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.922771
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abafd5
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.922771
Provenance
Creator Karjalainen, Olli ORCID logo; Luoto, Miska ORCID logo; Aalto, Juha ORCID logo; Etzelmüller, Bernd ORCID logo; Grosse, Guido ORCID logo; Jones, Benjamin M ORCID logo; Lilleøren, Karianne Staalesen ORCID logo; Hjort, Jan ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2020
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/zip
Size 13.5 MBytes
Discipline Earth System Research