<h2>Paleopermafrost: Variations and Evolutions under Different Climate</h2> <p ><strong>Researcher:</strong> Kazuyuki Saito<br />
        <strong>Funding Source: </strong>NSF through &ldquo;visiting scientist&rdquo; account<br />
        <strong>Collaborators:</strong> V. Romanovsky, S. Marchenko (GI/UAF); K. Yoshikawa (WERC/UAF);
        N. Bigelow (AQS/UAF)</p>
      <p > The goal of the project is to reconstruct the frozen ground distribution under different (paleo)climatic
        environments, and investigate the variations and sensitivity in time and space to the global
        climate changes. </p>
      <p > Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project 2 (PMIP2) outputs for Holocene Optimum and the
        Last Glacial Maximum are used as forcing data to the climate models and the land terrestrial
        schemes for reconstruction of the permafrost distribution, and compare the results within the
        models and with the observation-based estimates.</p>
      <p > Information on models&rsquo; performance (on both good and bad parts), and better understanding
        of paleopermafrost variations under different climate conditions.</p>