Water and heat transport in boreal soils: Implications for soil response to climate change

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1836-1842

  Fan, Zhaosheng ^a   Neff, Jason C ^a   Harden, Jennifer W ^b   Zhang, Tingjun ^a   Veldhuis, Hugo ^c   Czimczik, Claudia I ^d   Winston, Gregory C ^d   O'Donnell, Jonathan A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal; Carbon; Climate change; Permafrost; Water movement; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

BOREAL; CANADIAN BOREAL FOREST; CHANGING CLIMATE; CONVECTIVE HEAT; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROWING SEASON; HEAT TRANSPORT; HEAT TRANSPORT MODEL; LIQUID WATER; SITE RESPONSE; SOIL RESPONSE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL THERMAL PROPERTIES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STAND AGE; TEMPERATE SOILS; UNDER-REPRESENTED; WATER FLOWS; WATER MOVEMENT;

CLIMATE MODELS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUIDS; PERMAFROST; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; THAWING; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; PERMAFROST; SOIL CARBON; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; WATER FLOW; WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT TRANSFER; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; THAWING; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER FLOW; WATER TRANSPORT; WATER VAPOR; WETLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; HOT TEMPERATURE; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 79952624723     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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