Dynamics of Permafrost Environments. Publications
Antarctic Terrestrial Environments Dynamics
Prates, G., & Vieira, G. (2023). Surface Displacement of Hurd Rock Glacier from 1956 to 2019 from Historical Aerial Frames and Satellite Imagery (Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula). Remote Sensing, 15(14), 3685. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15143685.
Prates, G.; Torrecillas, C.; Berrocoso, M.; Goyanes, G.; Vieira, G. (2023). Deception Island 1967–1970 Volcano Eruptions from Historical Aerial Frames and Satellite Imagery (Antarctic Peninsula). Remote Sensing, 15(8), Artigo 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15082052
Pina, P., Vieira, G. (2022). UAVs for Science in Antarctica. Remote Sensing, 14(7), 1610, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14071610 .
Sotille, M.E.; Bremer, U.F.; Vieira, G.; Velho, L.F.; Petsch, C.; Auger, J.D.; Simões, J.C. (2022). UAV-based classification of maritime Antarctic vegetation types using GEOBIA and random forest, Ecological Informat-ics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101768
Sotille, M.E.; Bremer, U.F.; Vieira, G.; Velho, L.F.; Petsch, C.; Simões, J.C. (2020). Evaluation of UAV and satellite-derived NDVI to map maritime Antarctic vegetation, Applied Geography, 125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102322 .
Miranda V., Pina P., Heleno S., Vieira G., Mora C., & Schaefer C. (2020). Monitoring recent changes of vegetation in Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica) through satellite imagery guided by UAV surveys. Science of the Total Environment, 704, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135295.
Strozzi, T.; Antonova, S.; Gunther, F.; Maetzler, E.; Vieira, G.; Wegmuller, U.; Westermann, S.; Bartsch, A. 2018. Sentinel-1 SAR Interferometry for Surface Deformation Monitoring in Low-Land Permafrost Areas, Remote Sensing, 10(9):1360. DOI: 10.3390/rs10091360.
Mustafa, O.; Barbosa, A.; Krause, D.J.; Peter, H-U.; Vieira, G.; Rummler, M-C. 2018. State of knowledge: Antarctic wildlife response to unmanned aerial systems. Polar Biology. doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2363-9.
Hodson, A.J., Nowak, A., Sabacka, M., Jungblut, A., Navarro, F., Pearce, D., Ávila-Jiménez, M., Convey, P., Vieira, G. 2017. Climatically-sensitive transfer of iron to maritime Antarctic ecosystems by surface runoff. Nature Communications 8, 14499, doi:10.1038/ncomms14499.
Hodson, A. J., A. Nowak, J. Cook, M. Sabacka, E. S. Wharfe, D. A. Pearce, P. Convey, and G. Vieira. 2017. Microbes influence the biogeochemical and optical properties of maritime Antarctic snow., J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 122, doi:10.1002/2016JG003694.
Mora C., Jímenez J.J., Pina P., Catalão J., Vieira G. 2017. Evaluation of single-band snow patch mapping using high resolution microwave remote sensing: an application to the Maritime Antarctic. The Cryosphere 11, 139-155. doi:10.5194/tc-11-139-2017
Pina, P., Vieira, G., Bandeira, L., Mora, C. 2016: Accurate determination of surface reference data in digital photographs in ice-frees surfaces of Maritime Antarctica, Science of the Total Environment, 573: 290-302.
Reis, A.R.; Catalao, J. ; Vieira, G ; Nico, G, 2015. Mitigation of atmospheric phase delay in InSAR time series using ERA-interim model, GPS and MODIS data: Application to the permafrost deformation in Hurd Peninsula, Antarctica. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International, 26-31 July 2015, pp. 3454-3457.
Schaefer CEGR, Pereira TTCP, Ker JC, Almeida ICC, Simas FNBS, Oliveira FS, Corrêa GR, Vieira G. 2014. Soils and Landforms at Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula: Formation, Classification, Distribution, and Relationships. Soil Sci-ence Society of America Journal, 79(1): 175-184.
Vieira G, Mora C, Pina P, Schaefer C. 2014. A proxy for snow cover and winter ground surface cooling: mapping Usnea sp communities using high resolution remote sensing imagery (Maritime Antarctica). Geomorphology, 225(15): 69-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.049.
Goyanes G, Vieira G, Caselli A, Cardoso M, Marmy A, Bernardo I, Hauck C. 2014. Geothermal anomalies, permafrost and geomorphological dynamics (Deception Island, Antarctica). Geomorphology. 225(15): 57-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.010.
Guglielmin M., Vieira G. 2014. Permafrost and periglacial research in Antarctica: New results and perspectives. Geomorphology, 225(15): 1-3.
Mora C, Vieira G, Ramos, M. 2013. Evaluation of Envisat ASAR IMP imagery for snow mapping at varying spatial resolution (Deception Island, South Shetlands - Antarctica. in Antarctic Glacial and Periglacial Processes, Mike Hambrey (ed.). The Geological Society Publications, London.
Bockheim J, Vieira G, Ramos M, Lopez-Martinez J, Serrano E, Guglielmin M, Wilhelm K, Nieuwendam A. 2013. Climate Warming and Permafrost Dynamics in the Antarctic Peninsula Region . Global and Planetary Change, 100: 215-223.
Melo, R., Vieira, G., Caselli, A., Ramos, M. 2012. Susceptibility modelling of hummocky terrain distribution using the information value method (Deception Island, Antarctic Peninsula), Geomorphology, 155-156: 88-95 doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.027
Hauck, C.; Vieira, G.; Gruber, S.; Blanco, J.J.; Ramos, M., 2007. Geophysical identification of permafrost in Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctic. Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 112, F02S19, doi:10.1029/2006JF000544.
Thermal State of Permafrost
Baptista, J, Vieira, G, Lee, H. (2024). Ground surface temperature regimes are controlled by the topography and snow cover in the ice-free areas of Maritime Antarctica». Catena 240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.107947.
Farzamian, M, G Blanchy, P McLachlan, G Vieira, M Esteves, M A de Pablo, J Triantifilis, E Lippmann, C Hauck. (2024). Advancing Permafrost Monitoring With Autonomous Electrical Resistivity Tomography (A‐ERT): Low‐Cost Instrumentation and Open‐Source Data Processing Tool». Geophysical Research Letters, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105770.
de Pablo, M. A., Ramos, M., Vieira, G., Molina, A., Ramos, R., Maior, C. N., Prieto, M., & Ruiz-Fernández, J. (2023). Interannual variability of ground surface thermal regimes in Livingston and Deception islands, Ant-arctica (2007–2021). Land Degradation & Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4922
Hrbáček, F., Oliva, M., Hansen, C., Balks, M., O’Neill, T. A., de Pablo, M. A., Ponti, S., Ramos, M., Vieira, G., Abramov, A., Kaplan Pastíriková, L., Guglielmin, M., Goyanes, G., Francelino, M. R., Schaefer, C., & Lacelle, D. (2023). Active layer and permafrost thermal regimes in the ice-free areas of Antarctica. Earth-Science Reviews, 242, 104458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104458
Ramos, M.; Vieira, G.; de Pablo, M.A.; Molina, A.; Jimenez, J.J. (2020). Transition from a Subaerial to a Sub-nival Permafrost Temperature Regime Following Increased Snow Cover (Livingston Island, Maritime Ant-arctic). Atmosphere, 11, 1332, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121332 .
Farzamian, M., Vieira, G., Monteiro Santos, F. A., Yaghoobi Tabar, B., Hauck, C., Catarina Paz, M., Bernardo, I., Ramos, M., & Angel De Pablo, M. (2020). Detailed detection of active layer freeze-thaw dynamics using quasi-continuous electrical resistivity tomography (Deception Island, Antarctica). Cryosphere, 14(3), 1105–1120. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1105-2020
Obu, J., Westermann, S., Vieira, G., Abramov, A., Balks, M., Bartsch, A., Hrbacek, F., Kaab, A., & Ramos, M. (2020). Pan-Antarctic map of near-surface permafrost temperatures at 1 km2 scale, The Cryosphere, 14 (2): 497-519. doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-497-2020.
de Pablo, M., Jiménez, J., Ramos, M., Prieto, M., Molina, A., Vieira, G., Hidalgo, M., Fernández, S., Recondo, C., Calleja, J., Peón, J., Corbea-Pérez, A., Maior, C., Morales, M., & Mora, C. (2020). Frozen ground and snow cover monitoring in Livingston and Deception islands, Antarctica: preliminary results of the 2015-2019 PERMASNOW project. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 0. doi:https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.4381
Biskaborn, B.K., Smith, S.L., Noetzli, J., Matthes, H., Vieira, G., Streletskiy, D.A., Schoeneich, P., Romanovsky, V.E., Lewkowicz, A.G., Abramov, A., Allard, M., Boike, J., Cable, W.L., Christiansen, H.H., Delaloye, R., Diekmann, B., Drozdov, D., Etzelmüller, B., Grosse, G., Guglielmin, M., Ingeman-Nielsen, T., Isaksen, K., Ishikawa, M., Johansson, M., Johannsson, H., Joo, A., Kaverin, D., Kholodov, A., Konstantinov, P., Kröger, T., Lambiel, C., Lanckman, J.-P., Luo, D., Malkova, G., Meiklejohn, I., Moskalenko, N., Oliva, M., Phillips, M., Ramos, M., Sannel, A.B.K., Sergeev, D., Seybold, C., Skryabin, P., Vasiliev, A., Wu, Q., Yoshikawa, K., Zheleznyak, M., Lantuit, H., 2019. Permafrost is warming at a global scale. Nature Communications 10, 264, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4.
Hrbáček, F.; Vieira, G.; Oliva, M.; Balks, M.; Guglielmin, M.; de Pablo, M.A.; Molina, A.; Ramos, M.; Goyanes, G.; Meiklejohn, I.; Abramov, A.; Demidov, N.; Fedorov-Davydov, D.; Lupachev, A.; Rivkina, E.; Láska, K.; Kňažková, Nývlt, D.; Raffi, R.; Strelin, J.; Sone, T.; Fukui, K.; Dolgikh, A.; Zazovskaya, E.; Mergelov, N.; Osokin, N.; Miamin, V. 2018. Active layer monitoring in Antarctica: an overview of results from 2006 to 2015, Polar Geography, DOI:10.1080/1088937X.2017.1420105.
Vieira G, Mora C, Faleh A. 2017. New observations indicate the possible presence of permafrost in North Africa (Djebel Toubkal, High Atlas, Morocco). The Cryosphere 11(4):1691-1705, doi: 10.5194/tc-11-1691-2017.
Streletskiy D, Biskaborn B, Noetzli J, Lanckman J-P, Romanovsky VE, Schoeneich P, Shiklomanov N, Smith SL, Vieira G, Zhao L. 2017. Permafrost thermal state. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98(8): 19-21.
Oliva, M., Hrbacek, F., Ruiz-Fernández, J., de Pablo, M. Á., Vieira, G., Ramos, M., & Antoniades, D. (2016). Active layer dynamics in three topographically distinct lake catchments in Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Catena, (August). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.011
Ferreira, A., Vieira, G., Ramos, M. and Nieuwendam, A.: Ground temperature and permafrost distribution in Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctic): An assessment using freezing indexes and TTOP modelling, Catena, doi:10.1016/j.catena.2016.08.027, 2016.
De Pablo, M. A., Ramos, M., Molina, A., Vieira, G., Hidalgo, M. A., Prieto, M., Jiménez, J. J., Fernández, S., Recondo, C., Calleja, J. F., Peón, J. J. and Mora, C. 2016: Frozen ground and snow cover monitoring in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: Instrumentation, effects on ground thermal behaviour and future research, Cuad. Investig. Geográfica, 42(2), doi:10.18172/cig.2917.
Hrbáček, F., Oliva, M., Laska, K., Ruiz-Fernández, J., De Pablo, M. A., Vieira, G., Ramos, M. and Nývlt, D. 2016: Active layer thermal regime in two climatically contrasted sites of the Antarctic Peninsula region, Cuad. Investig. Geográfica, 42(2), 457, doi:10.18172/cig.2915.
Ramos, M., Vieira, G., De Pablo, M. A., Molina, A., Abramov, A. and Goyanes, G. 2017. Recent shallowing of the thaw depth at Crater Lake, Deception Island, Antarctica (2006–2014), doi:10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.019.
Noetzli J, Christiansen HH, Romanovsky VE, Shiklomanov NI, Smith SL, Vieira G, Zhao L. 2015. Permafrost [in “State of the Climate in 2014”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96 (7), S17–S18.
Christiansen HH, J. Noetzli, V. Romanovsky, N. Shiklomanov, S. Smith, G. Vieira, L. Zhao. 2013. Permafrost thermal state. in Blunden, Jessica, Derek S. Arndt: State of the Climate in 2012. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, S1–S258. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2013BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
de Pablo MA, Blanco JJ, Molina A, Ramos M, Quesada A, Vieira G. 2013. Interannual active layer variability at the Limnopolar Lake CALM site on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica . Antarctic Science. doi:10.1017/S0954102012000818.
H. Lantuit, H. Christiansen, J. Noetzli, V. Romanovsky, N. Shiklomanov, S. Smith, G. Vieira, L. Zhao. 2011. Permafrost thermal state. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Special Supplement. Vol. 92 (6): 548-549.
Correia, A., Vieira, G., Ramos, M. 2012. Thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of cores from a 26 meter deep borehole drilled in Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctic. Geomorphology, 155-156: 7-11. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.012
Vieira, G., Bockheim, J., Guglielmin, M., Balks, M., Abramov, A.A., Boelhouwers, J., Cannone, N., Ganzert, L., Gilichinsky, D.A., Goryachkin, S., López-Martínez, J., Meiklejohn, I., Raffi, R., Ramos, M., Schaefer, C., Serrano, E., Simas, F., Sletten, R., Wagner, D. 2010 - Thermal State of permafrost and active-layer monitoring in the Antarctic: advances during the International Polar Year 2007-09. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 21(2): 182-197.
Ramos, M., Vieira, G. 2009. Evaluation of the ground surface Enthalpy balance from bedrock shallow borehole temperatures (Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctic). The Cryosphere, 3: 133-145.
Ramos, M.; Vieira, G.; Gruber, S.; Blanco, J.J.; Hauck, C.; Hidalgo, M.A.; Tomé, D.; Neves, M.; Trindade, A. 2007. Permafrost and active layer monitoring in the maritime Antarctic: Preliminary results from CALM sites on Livingston and Deception Islands. U.S. Geological Survey and The National Academies; USGS OF-2007-1047, Short Research Paper 070, doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp070
Ramos, M., Hassler, A., Vieira, G., Hauck, C., Gruber, S. 2009. Setting up boreholes for permafrost thermal monitoring on Livingston Island in the Maritime Antarctic. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.635.
Permafrost Degradation
Freitas, P.; Vieira, G.; Mora, C.; Canário, J.; Vincent, W.F. (2022). Vegetation shadow casts impact remotely sensed reflectance from permafrost thaw ponds in the subarctic forest-tundra zone. Environmental Earth Sciences, 81 (22), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-022-10640-1 .
Folhas, D.; Duarte, A.C.; Pilote, M.; Vincent, W.F.; Freitas, P.; Vieira, G.; Silva, A.M.S.; Duarte, R.M.B.O.; Canário, J. (2020). Structural Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter in Permafrost Peatland Lakes. Water, 12, 3059. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12113059 .
Freitas, P.; Vieira, G.; Canário, J.; Folhas, D.; Vincent, W.F. 2019. Identification of a threshold minimum area for reflectance retrieval from thermokarst lakes and ponds using full-pixel data from Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing, 11, 657. doi:10.3390/rs11060657
Lousada M, Pina P, Vieira G, Bandeira L, Mora C. 2017. Evaluation of the use of very high resolution aerial imagery for accurate ice-wedge polygon mapping (Adventdalen, Svalbard), Science of the Total Environment (in press).
Mora C, Vieira G, Pina P, Lousada M, Christiansen HH. 2015. Land cover classification using high resolution aerial photography in Adventdalen, Svalbard. Geografiska Annaller Series A. Physical Geography. DOI: 10.1111/geoa.12088.
Arctic Coastal Erosion
Tanguy, R., Whalen, D., Prates, G., & Vieira, G. (2023). Shoreline change rates and land to sea sediment and soil organic carbon transfer in eastern Parry Peninsula from 1965 to 2020 (Amundsen Gulf, Canada). Arctic Science, AS-2022-0028. https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2022-0028.
Tanguy, R.; Whalen, D.; Prates, G.; Vieira, G. (2023). Shoreline change rates and land to sea sediment and soil organic carbon transfer in eastern Parry Peninsula from 1965 to 2020 (Amundsen Gulf, Canada). Arctic Science, AS-2022-0028. https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2022-0028
Clark, A., Moorman, B., Whalen, D., Vieira, G. (2022). Multiscale Object-Based Classification and Feature Extraction along Arctic Coasts. Remote Sensing, 14, 2982. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14132982
Bartsch, A.; Ley, S.; Nitze, I.; Pointner, G.; Vieira, G. (2020). Feasibility Study for the Application of Synthetic Aperture Radar for Coastal Erosion Rate Quantification Across the Arctic. Front. Environ. Sci. 8: 1 43. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.00143.