Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 43338; published online: 23 February 2017; updated: 06 April 2017

The original HTML version of this Article contained formatting errors in the “Gravimetric water (ice) content (%)” row. The correct Table appears below.

Table 1 Physical-chemical parameters of the permafrost cores.

This error has been corrected in the HTML version of the Article; the PDF version was correct at the time of publication.