Permafrost and Periglacial Processes最新文献

{"title":"Microbial response to warming and cellulose addition in a maritime Antarctic soil","authors":"P. Pradel, L. Bravo, C. Merino, N. Trefault, R. Rodríguez, H. Knicker, Claudia Jara, G. Larama, F. Matus","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2182","url":null,"abstract":"Maritime Antarctic King George Island (South Shetland Islands) has experienced rapid warming in recent decades, but the impacts on soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition remain ambiguous. Most vegetation cover is dominated by bryophytes (mosses), whereas a few vascular plants, such as Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis grow interspersed. Therefore, SOM is mainly enriched with carbohydrates and C‐alkyl, provided by mosses, which lack lignin as a precursor for aromatic compounds and humus formation. However, there is no clear answer to how substrate and temperature increase changes in Antarctic microbial respiration. We determined in what way SOM mineralization changes with temperature and substrate addition by characterizing the temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil respiration in an open‐top chamber warming experiment. We hypothesized that: (a) cold‐tolerant microorganisms are well adapted to growing in maritime Antarctic soils (~ 0°C), so would not respond to low and moderate temperature increases because they undergo various metabolic mechanism adjustments until they experience increasing temperatures toward optimum growth (e.g., by enzyme production); and (b) cellulose, as a complex carbonaceous substrate of vegetated areas in Maritime Antarctic soils, activates microorganisms, increasing the Q10 of soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralization. Soils (5–10 cm) were sampled after four consecutive years of experimental warming for SOC composition, microbial community structure, and C mineralization at 4, 12, and 20°C with and without cellulose addition. Functional group chemoheterotrophs, represented mainly by Proteobacteria, decomposed more refractory SOC (aromatic compounds), as indicated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, in ambient plots than in warming plots where plants were growing. The C‐CO2 efflux from the incubation experiment remained stable below 12°C but sharply increased at 20°C. Q10 varied between 0.4 and 4 and was reduced at 20°C, whereas cellulose addition increased Q10. In conclusion, as confirmed during field studies in a climate scenario, cold‐tolerant microorganisms in maritime Antarctic soils were slightly affected by increasing temperature (e.g., 4–12°C), with reduced temperature sensitivity, as summarized in a conceptual model.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42294664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ice wedge polygon stability on steep slopes in West Greenland related to temperature and moisture dynamics of the active layer","authors":"Katharina Schwarzkopf, S. Seitz, M. Fritz, T. Scholten, P. Kühn","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2181","url":null,"abstract":"Ice wedge polygons on steep slopes have generally been described as being covered by periglacial sediments and, typically, the active layer on slopes becomes mobile during thaw periods, which can lead to solifluction. In West Greenland close to the ice margin, however, the active layer and ice wedge polygons are stable despite their occurrence on steep slopes with inclinations of ≥30°. We conducted a soil survey (including sampling for soil analyses and radiocarbon dating) in the Umimmalissuaq valley and installed a field station ~4 km east of the current ice margin to monitor soil temperature and water tension at depths of 10, 20 and 35 cm of the active layer on a steep, north‐facing slope in the middle of an ice wedge polygon from 2009 to 2015. Thawing and freezing periods lasted between 2 and 3 months and the active layer was usually completely frozen from November to April. We observed simultaneous and complete water saturation at all three depths of the active layer in one summer for 1 day. The amount of water in the active layer apparently was not enough to trigger solifluction during the summer thaw, even at slope inclinations above 30°. In addition, the dense shrub tundra absorbs most of the water during periods between thawing and freezing, which further stabilizes the slope. This process, together with the dry and continental climate caused by katabatic winds combined with no or limited frost heave, plays a crucial role in determining the stability of these slopes and can explain the presence of large‐scale stable ice wedge polygon networks in organic matter‐rich permafrost, which is about 5,000 years old. This study underlines the importance of soil hydrodynamics and local climate regime for landscape stability and differing intensities of solifluction processes in areas with strong geomorphological gradients and rising air temperatures.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42956150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors influencing the development of microtextures on cold‐climate aeolian quartz grains revealed by experimental frost action","authors":"M. Górska, B. Woronko, T. Kossowski","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2179","url":null,"abstract":"Aeolian‐originated quartz grains of coarse‐sand size (0.5–1 mm) were subjected to experimental frost weathering. A total of 1,000 freeze–thaw cycles with temperature ranges from −5 to +10°C were simulated under full water availability conditions. Scanning electron microscope microtextural analysis of grain surfaces conducted after 0, 50, 100, 300, 700, and 1,000 freeze–thaw cycles resulted in different‐sized conchoidal fractures and breakage blocks as frost‐induced microtextures. The vast majority of these microtextures were encountered on the most convex parts of aeolian grains and their number increased with ongoing freeze–thaw cycles. However, the number of recorded frost‐originated microtextures remained relatively small up to 700 freeze–thaw cycles and increased after 1,000 freeze–thaw cycles. Transmission electron microscope microstructural analysis of grains after 0, 100, and 1,000 freeze–thaw cycles showed both primary (e.g., inclusions, grain boundaries) and secondary (e.g., cracks) defects in quartz crystals. The frequency of the latter remained unexpectedly low. The susceptibility of aeolian‐originated sand‐sized quartz grains to frost‐induced modifications is interpreted here to depend mainly on their internal characteristics. These include aeolian‐driven development of a subsurface impact zone that determines the depth to which frost‐originated microtextures develop. The outer impact zone consists of a thin layer of surficial crust and a series of more or less parallel ridges arranged into mechanically upturned plates. The inner impact zone consists of intact or cracked quartz crystals. The susceptibility of aeolian‐originated quartz grains to frost‐induced modifications depends therefore on a combination of internal (i.e., original crystallography of quartz grains) and external (i.e., aeolian and frost processes acting upon the grains) factors.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48030801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Issue Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2152","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract is available for this article.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41953788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Holocene January paleotemperature of northwestern Siberia reconstructed based on stable isotope ratio of ice wedges","authors":"Y. Vasil'chuk, A. Vasil'chuk, N. Budantseva","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2177","url":null,"abstract":"Ice wedges are considered as a paleoarchive of winter air temperatures as their stable isotope composition has been widely used to reconstruct winter climatic conditions in the Arctic regions. Ice wedge stable isotope records, obtained in recent decades for many Arctic permafrost areas of Russia and North America, demonstrate a clear shift from lower to higher values between the Late Pleistocene and Holocene (by 5–10‰ for δ18O values in some regions of the Russian Arctic), which is widely accepted as evidence of winter air temperature increase. However, the evolution of winter air temperatures during the Holocene is less clear and, according to proxy reconstructions, winter climate trends are not synchronous and may significantly vary throughout the Arctic. In this study, we investigate the stable isotope composition of Holocene syngenetic ice wedges and modern ice veinlets of northwestern Siberia. Radiocarbon dating of enclosing sediments and a few dates of organic material from ice wedges demonstrate that ice wedges grew constantly within the study area during the Holocene though early–mid‐Holocene in northwestern Siberia is often considered as a thermal optimum. In fact, many proxy records indicate an increase of summer air temperatures followed by thermokarst activity, peatland formation, and northward advance of the treeline. According to our data, winter climate conditions in terms of mean air temperature of the coldest winter month (January) did not change significantly during the key Holocene stages, and during the Greenlandian and most of the Northgrippian stages (between 11.4 and 6 cal ka BP) mean January air temperature (TmJ) varied between −21 and −30°C, and from the end of the Northgrippian, during the Meghalayan stages of Holocene (5.2–0.9 cal ka BP), TmJ varied between −24 to −28°C. Mean January air temperature during the Holocene was generally 1–2°C lower than the modern one, meanwhile the submeridional direction of TmJ isotherms and eastward decrease of TmJ values in Holocene are similar to the modern pattern.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50932174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Combination of historical and modern data to decipher the geomorphic evolution of the Innere Ölgruben rock glacier, Kaunertal, Austria, over almost a century (1922–2021)","authors":"Fabian Fleischer, F. Haas, M. Altmann, Jakob Rom, Bettina Knoflach, M. Becht","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2178","url":null,"abstract":"Rock glaciers are cryo‐conditioned downslope‐creeping landforms in high mountains. Their dynamics are changing due to external factors influenced by climate change. Although there has been a growing scientific interest in mountain permafrost and thus in rock glaciers in recent years, their historical development, especially before the first alpine‐wide aerial image flights in the 1950s, has hardly been researched. Therefore, we utilize a historical stereophotogrammetric map from 1922 and historical flow velocity profiles (1938–1953) and relate them to data derived from historical aerial photographs and airborne laser scanning data in several time slices between 1953 and 2021. By doing so, the development of flow velocity, surface elevation changes, and frontal advance of the two lobes of the composite rock glacier Inner Ölgrube, Kaunertal, Austria, is analyzed and compared over almost a century. Results indicate an increased frontal advance in the laterally confined area of one lobe and a severe subsidence in the upper area of both lobes between 1922 and 1953. Whereas the former could be explained by a combination of the short warm phase in the 1940s and 1950s and the (subsurface) topography, the latter might be attributed to the strong melting of superimposed debris‐covered dead ice bodies, a relict of the Little Ice Age (LIA) glaciation. Both factors might also contribute to the increased flow velocities between 1938 and 1953, which are still recognizable in the 1953–1970 time step. Although both lobes follow a general similar trend, which is in line with the alpine‐wide trend of flow velocity acceleration in the 1990s, differences in the geomorphic development of the two lobes were identified. In addition to a slightly varying evolution of the flow velocities, the timing and magnitude of the volume changes are different. Furthermore, both lobes display a dissimilar mechanism of frontal advance over the entire study period. Because the external forcing is identical, the varying development might be attributed to variations in internal structure, bedrock topography, or upslope connection of the lobes. Due to the lateral constriction, the subsurface topography, and the LIA maximum extent of the glacier, it is assumed that the geomorphic development of the Innere Ölgruben rock glacier, particularly before 1953, represents a special case, and the results are not simply transferable to other rock glaciers.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48795344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Origin of CO2, CH4, and N2O trapped in ice wedges in central Yakutia and their relationship","authors":"Ji‐Woong Yang, J. Ahn, G. Iwahana, Nayeon Ko, Jihun Kim, Kyungmin Kim, A. Fedorov, Sang-young Han","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2176","url":null,"abstract":"Permafrost thawing as a result of global warming is expected to foster the biological remineralization of intact organic carbon and nitrogen and release greenhouse gas (GHG) into the atmosphere, which will have positive feedback for future global warming. However, GHG budgets and their controls in permafrost ground ice are not yet fully understood. This study aims to better understand the control mechanisms of GHG in ground ice by using new gas and chemistry data. In this study, we present new data on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) mixing ratios in three different ice wedges, Churapcha, Syrdakh, and Cyuie, located in central Yakutia, Siberia. The GHG mixing ratios in the studied ice wedges range from 0.0% to 13.8% CO2, 1.3–91.2 ppm CH4, and 0% and 0–1414 N2O. In particular, all three ice wedges demonstrate that ice‐wedge samples enriched in CH4 were depleted in N2O mixing ratios and vice versa. N2–O2–Ar compositions indicate that the studied ice wedges were most likely formed by dry snow or hoarfrost, not by freezing of snow meltwater, and the O2‐consuming biological metabolism was active. Most of the observed GHG mixing ratios cannot be explained without microbial metabolism. The inhibitory impact of denitrification products of nitrate (including N2O) could be an important control of the ice‐wedge CH4 mixing ratio.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43760214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seasonally distinct runoff–recharge partitioning in an alpine tundra catchment","authors":"Geoffrey G. L. Kershaw, M. English, B. Wolfe","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2174","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrological processes within the alpine tundra of the Taiga Cordillera ecozone in northwestern Canada are poorly understood, yet these areas receive more precipitation per unit area than lowlands and sustain late summer and winter flow in large river systems when contributions from other areas are reduced. The objective of this study was to quantify the spatial and temporal variability in streamflow and groundwater recharge within an alpine tundra basin with discontinuous permafrost and explore the potential impacts of climate change on the timing and intensity of these hydrological processes. Hydrometric and remote sensing methods were used to complete a water balance assessment of the study basin and compare spatial and seasonal differences in inputs, outputs, runoff ratio, and runoff–recharge partitioning during the 2019 open water season. During the freshet, the basin received large daily melt volumes and responded with highly efficient runoff. Evapotranspiration became the primary means of water loss in the early summer but declined as the summer progressed. During the summer, groundwater discharge exceeded precipitation inputs and sustained headwater subbasin streamflow. Groundwater recharge occurred primarily via glaciofluvial upland infiltration during the freshet and channel bed infiltration during the summer. The partitioning of basin outputs between runoff and groundwater recharge was highly seasonal, with a freshet ratio favoring runoff (0.83) while the early and late summer favored recharge (0.28 and 0.17, respectively). As climate change continues, higher air temperatures and greater precipitation are expected for the study basin. Longer open water seasons and declining permafrost extent within the study basin will result in a greater proportion of input water routed to storage and/or groundwater recharge instead of runoff. Shrubification and treeline expansion may also increase evaporative losses from alpine tundra areas, reducing both rapid runoff and delayed aquifer recharge contributions important for larger rivers at lower elevation.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47515093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thermal history of the permafrost zone in the vicinity of the deep Tyumen SG‐6 well, West Siberian Basin","authors":"Y. Galushkin","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2168","url":null,"abstract":"A new software package, ICE2020 of the GALO basin modeling system, is used here to model the thermal evolution of permafrost zones in a sedimentary section of the Tyumen SG‐6 well in the Koltogor–Urengoy graben of the West Siberia Basin. Reconstruction of permafrost evolution during the last 3.5 Ma is considered as the final stage of the modeling procedure of the basin, the history of which began with continental rifting in the Late Permian. The modeling uses a real sedimentary section of the basin with the correct lithological composition of its rocks. Application of the ICE2020 package made it possible to evaluate the influence of sedimentation on the formation of permafrost zones. The calculations showed that climate variations during the Late Pliocene–Holocene led to a reduction in rock temperatures by 15–20°C in the upper 1,500 m of the sedimentary section of the SG‐6 well and by 5–10°C in the deeper layers of the section. At the same time, the results of calculations with a climate curve limited to the last 50,000 and 100,000 years differ markedly from simulations with a climate curve of the last 3.5 Ma.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45184245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A review of salt occurrences in soils of the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica","authors":"I. B. Campbell, D. S. Sheppard","doi":"10.1002/ppp.2175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2175","url":null,"abstract":"Salts are pervasive throughout the Transantarctic Mountains cold desert soils and are derived primarily from atmospheric sources. Their composition is varied and dependent on local or regional climatic conditions. Their presence within soil profiles ranges from small flecks to continuous salt horizons and their abundance and distribution have a distinct relationship with climatic attributes and land surface age which extends back to the Miocene. While liquid water is seldom present, salts are present in saturated solutions surrounding mineral grains in the soil and may move deeply into the soil or underlying icy permafrost. Extensive ground surface salt efflorescence occurs on freshly exposed surfaces that have been disturbed by human activities, the salts being derived from within the thawed permafrost ice.","PeriodicalId":54629,"journal":{"name":"Permafrost and Periglacial Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42017502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}