Oliver W Frauenfeld

Biographic Data

ID5593279
NAMEOliver W Frauenfeld
GIVEN NAMESOliver W
FAMILY NAMEFrauenfeld
SIGNATUREFRAUENFELD O W
AFFILIATIONSTexas A&M University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The thermal effect of snow cover on ground surface temperature in the Northern Hemisphere

    Open AccessXiaoqing Peng, Oliver W Frauenfeld et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Snow cover is critical to the ground thermal regime because it affects surface conditions and the energy balance. Prior work inherently included confounding effects from vegetation and the soil when estimating the snow’s effect by using the differences between air and ground surface or soil temperature. Here we use the Kudryavtsev model including a snow module to isolate the effect of only the snow cover during winter, based on observational site…

  • The infrastructure cost of permafrost degradation for the Northern Hemisphere

    Open AccessHaodong Jin, Xiaoqing Peng et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2023References: 1

  • Permafrost response to land use and land cover change in the last millennium across the Northern Hemisphere

    Open AccessXiaoqing Peng, Tingjun Zhang et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2020

    Land use and land cover change (LULCC) can alter surface climate through biogeophysical feedbacks including the modification of energy, moisture, and momentum exchanges between the land and atmosphere. Permafrost, a component of the cryosphere, plays an important role in the climate system. However, the role of permafrost in LULCC in cold regions is still not clearly understood. Here, we employ a LULCC sensitivity experiment carried out by the co…

  • The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (Pyrn) is getting older

    Open AccessGeorge Tanski, Helena Bergstedt et al.ARTICLEPolar Record2019Cited by: 1References: 7

    A lasting legacy of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2008 was the promotion of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN), initially an IPY outreach and education activity by the International Permafrost Association (IPA). With the momentum of IPY, PYRN developed into a thriving network that still connects young permafrost scientists, engineers, and researchers from other disciplines. This research note summarises (1) PYRN’s developme…

  • Changes in the 1963–2013 shallow ground thermal regime in Russian permafrost regions

    Open AccessD A Streletskiy, Artem B Sherstiukov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Spatial variability and temporal trends of the shallow ground thermal regime and permafrost activelayer thickness (ALT) were estimated over 1963-2013 using daily soil temperature data available from stations of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service. Correlation analysis was used to evaluate the role of changing climatic conditions on the ground thermal regime. ALT data collected by the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring program in Russia were …

  • An observational 71-year history of seasonally frozen ground changes in the Eurasian high latitudes

    Open AccessOliver W Frauenfeld, Tingjun ZhangARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2011

    In recent decades, significant changes have occurred in high-latitude areas, particularly to the cryosphere. Sea ice extent and thickness have declined. In land areas, glaciers and ice sheets are experiencing negative mass balance changes, and there is substantial regional snow cover variability. Subsurface changes are also occurring in northern soils. This study focuses on these changes in the soil thermal regime, specifically the seasonally fro…