Sebastian Westermann

Research interests

Publications

• Modeled Microbial Dynamics Explain the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2020 · 10.1029/2020gb006678

• Fast response of cold ice-rich permafrost in northeast Siberia to a warming climate

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15725-8

• Submarine Permafrost Map in the Arctic Modeled Using 1‐D Transient Heat Flux (SuPerMAP)

  Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans · 2019 · 10.1029/2018jc014675

• Northern Hemisphere permafrost map based on TTOP modelling for 2000–2016 at 1 km2 scale

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.023

• Climate in Svalbard 2100 – a knowledge base for climate adaptation.

  IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) · 2019 · 10.25607/obp-888

• A 20-year record (1998–2017) of permafrost, active layer and meteorological conditions at a high Arctic permafrost research site (Bayelva, Spitsbergen)

  Earth system science data · 2018 · 10.5194/essd-10-355-2018

• Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

  Nature Communications · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07557-4

• Sentinel-1 SAR Interferometry for Surface Deformation Monitoring in Low-Land Permafrost Areas

  Remote Sensing · 2018 · 10.3390/rs10091360

• An observation-based constraint on permafrost loss as a function of global warming

  Nature Climate Change · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3262

• Strong degradation of palsas and peat plateaus in northern Norway during the last 60 years

  ˜The œcryosphere · 2017 · 10.5194/tc-11-1-2017

• Simulating the thermal regime and thaw processes of ice-rich permafrost ground with the land-surface model CryoGrid 3

  Geoscientific model development · 2016 · 10.5194/gmd-9-523-2016

• Permafrost Map for Norway, Sweden and Finland

  Permafrost and Periglacial Processes · 2016 · 10.1002/ppp.1922

• Rapid degradation of permafrost underneath waterbodies in tundra landscapes—Toward a representation of thermokarst in land surface models

  Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · 2016 · 10.1002/2016jf003956

• A ground temperature map of the North Atlantic permafrost region based on remote sensing and reanalysis data

  ˜The œcryosphere · 2015 · 10.5194/tc-9-1303-2015

• Climate and environmental change drives Ixodes ricinus geographical expansion at the northern range margin

  Parasites & Vectors · 2014 · 10.1186/1756-3305-7-11

• A statistical approach to represent small-scale variability of permafrost temperatures due to snow cover

  ˜The œcryosphere · 2014 · 10.5194/tc-8-2063-2014

• Transient thermal modeling of permafrost conditions in Southern Norway

  ˜The œcryosphere · 2013 · 10.5194/tc-7-719-2013

• Satellite-based modeling of permafrost temperatures in a tundra lowland landscape

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2013 · 10.1016/j.rse.2013.03.011

• Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost and land cover from a new permafrost observatory in the Lena River Delta, Siberia (1998–2011)

  Biogeosciences · 2013 · 10.5194/bg-10-2105-2013

• Subpixel heterogeneity of ice-wedge polygonal tundra: a multi-scale analysis of land cover and evapotranspiration in the Lena River Delta, Siberia

  Tellus B · 2012 · 10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.17301

• Systematic bias of average winter-time land surface temperatures inferred from MODIS at a site on Svalbard, Norway

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2011 · 10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.025

• Spatial and temporal variations of summer surface temperatures of high-arctic tundra on Svalbard — Implications for MODIS LST based permafrost monitoring

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2011 · 10.1016/j.rse.2010.11.018

• Modeling the impact of wintertime rain events on the thermal regime of permafrost

  ˜The œcryosphere · 2011 · 10.5194/tc-5-945-2011

• The annual surface energy budget of a high-arctic permafrost site on Svalbard, Norway

  ˜The œcryosphere · 2009 · 10.5194/tc-3-245-2009

• Mechanical Effect of van der Waals Interactions Observed in Real Time in an Ultracold Rydberg Gas

  Physical Review Letters · 2007 · 10.1103/physrevlett.98.023004

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