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The Latest Research in Permafrost Hydrology

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2024 | Viewed by 621

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Shibing Huang

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School of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Interests: freeze–thaw damage; fractured rock mass; rock mechanics; multifield coupling; numerical simulation
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Prof. Dr. Xusheng Wan

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School of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China
Interests: water freezing; unfrozen water content; multi-physics coupling model; water transfer; phase change

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on freeze–thaw damage, frost deformation, water distribution, storage, flow of seasonally and perennially frozen soils and rocks, and various engineering geology disasters caused by water movement and phase change in cold regions. The cold regions of the world are subject to mounting development which significantly affects the physical environment. Climate change, natural or human-induced, reinforces the impacts. Knowledge of surface and ground water processes operating in permafrost terrain is fundamental to planning, management, and conservation. Moreover, infrastructure construction in cold regions and geotechnical engineering damages caused by permafrost degradation and water movement have become increasingly severe, which poses great threats to the safety and long-term stability of infrastructure in permafrost regions.

The scope of discussion in this Special Issue will include, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Freeze–thaw damage to rocks and soils caused by water/ice phase change;
  • Thermo–hydraulic–mechanical coupling process by considering the water/ice phase change;
  • Water distribution and storage of seasonally and perennially frozen ground;
  • Water movement and phase change;
  • Physics and mechanics of frozen soil;
  • Soil improvement and reinforcement techniques;
  • Engineering disaster prevention and mitigation in cold regions.

Prof. Dr. Shibing Huang
Prof. Dr. Xusheng Wan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • freeze–thaw damage
  • multi-physics coupling model considering phase change
  • unfrozen water content
  • cold regions

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Thickness and Structure of Permafrost in Oil and Gas Fields of the Yamal Peninsula: Evidence from Shallow Transient Electromagnetic (sTEM) Survey
by Natalya Misyurkeeva, Igor Buddo, Ivan Shelokhov, Alexander Smirnov, Alexey Nezhdanov and Yuri Agafonov
Water 2024, 16(18), 2633; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16182633 - 16 Sep 2024
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The Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, especially the Yamal Peninsula located in the permafrost zone, stores Russia’s largest oil and gas resources. However, development in the area is challenging because of its harsh climate and engineering–geological features. Drilling in oil and gas fields in permafrost [...] Read more.
The Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, especially the Yamal Peninsula located in the permafrost zone, stores Russia’s largest oil and gas resources. However, development in the area is challenging because of its harsh climate and engineering–geological features. Drilling in oil and gas fields in permafrost faces problems that are fraught with serious accident risks: soil heaving leading to the collapse of wellheads and hole walls, deformation and breakage of casing strings, gas seeps or explosive emissions, etc. In this respect, knowledge of the permafrost’s structure is indispensable to ensure safe geological exploration and petroleum production in high-latitude regions. The extent and structure of permafrost in West Siberia, especially in its northern part (Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas), remain poorly studied. More insights into the permafrost’s structure have been obtained by a precise sTEM survey in the northern Yamal Peninsula. The sTEM soundings were performed in a large oil and gas field where permafrost is subject to natural and anthropogenic impacts, and its degradation, with freezing–thawing fluctuations and frost deformation, poses risks to exploration and development operations, as well as to production infrastructure. The results show that permafrost in the western part of the Yamal geocryological province is continuous laterally but encloses subriver and sublake unfrozen zones (taliks) and lenses of saline liquid material (cryopegs). The total thickness of perennially frozen rocks is 200 m. The rocks below 200 m have negative temperatures but are free from pore ice. Conductive features (<10 Ohm﮲m) traceable to the permafrost base may represent faults that act as pathways for water and gas fluids and, thus, can cause a geohazard in the oil and gas fields (explosion of frost mounds, gas blow during shallow drilling, etc.). Full article
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