In this paper, the average and maximum depths of seasonal frozen soil and the frozen duration of soil at 10 cm deep in Xinjiang during the 40-year period of 1961-2002 are analyzed. The results show that the average and maximum depths of seasonal frozen soil decrease and the frozen du-ration of soil becomes short under climate warming in Xinjiang. Such changes become more significant after climate warming-wetting since 1986. A significant mutation of the maximum depth of frozen soil occurred in both south Xinjiang and north Xinjiang in the mid-1980s.
seasonal frozen soilclimate changefrozen duration of soilmutationXinjiang
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