Hydrologic variability and its influence on long-term peat dynamics

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Rennermalm, Asa K ^a   Nordbotten, Jan M ^b,c   Wood, Eric F ^c  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATE; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; BI-STABILITY; CARBON RICH; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; HIGH LATITUDES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MODEL SIMULATION; NATURAL FLUCTUATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; PEAT ACCUMULATION; PEAT LAND; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; STABILIZING FACTORS; STOCHASTIC FORCING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODELS; PEAT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STOCHASTIC MODELS; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MODEL TEST; PEAT; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

SIBERIA;

EID: 78650433354     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008242     Document Type: Article

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