Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Reader Gary posted a comment about possible ocean impacts of excess water runoff from this summer's heavy rainfall over western Alaska,...

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a paper that was published in January, looking at changes in air and ground temperature in recent years at...

Back in 2018 and 2019 I looked at permafrost conditions at a couple of central Alaska monitoring sites maintained by UAF's Permafrost La...

I wasn't expecting to return to the topic of summer rain quite so soon, but for two reasons it makes sense to do so.  First, the current...

Back in September I posted some brief analysis of soil temperature profiles at one of the Fairbanks monitoring sites run by UAF's Perma...

A couple of months ago, word emerged of a new USGS data set that documents 18 years of climate measurements on the North Slope.  Starting in...

Prompted by a question from reader Tracy on permafrost depth in Fairbanks, I recently tracked down some soil temperature data at the UAF Geo...

A pair of articles related to North Slope environmental conditions caught my eye recently, one concerning warming permafrost and the other ...