Comparison of permafrost conditions in Canada and the USSR
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9224883 |
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| Authors | Roger J Brown (corresponding author), R J E Brown |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 87 |
| Pages | 741-751 |
| Publication date | 1967-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247400058411 |
| OpenAlex | W2108961448 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Canada and the USSR together possess most of the territory in the Northern Hemisphere underlain by permafrost or perennially frozen ground. As about one half of the land area of each country is affected, the permafrost region of the Soviet Union is 21⁄2 times larger than that of Canada. Outside mountainous regions, permafrost extends southward in Canada to the southern tip of James Bay at lat 51° N (Brown, in press). Permafrost extends farther south in eastern Asia, however, and occurs in Outer Mongolia and Manchuria to about lat 47° N Fig 1) (Baranov, 1959; Nekrasov, 1962)
Bay · Climatology · Geography · Northern Hemisphere · Permafrost · Physical geography · Soviet union · Climate change and permafrost · Cryospheric studies and observations · Geological Studies and Exploration · Geology · Oceanography
| Highly cited | No |
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