Soil temperature response to 21st century global warming: The role of and some implications for peat carbon in thawing permafrost soils in North America

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-138

  Wisser, D ^a   Marchenko, S ^b   Talbot, J ^a   Treat, C ^a   Frolking, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLES; CARBON POOL; CLIMATE WARMING; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; INSULATING PROPERTIES; MODEL DOMAINS; PEAT LAND; PEAT SOILS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; GEOTHERMAL MODELING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; PEAT; SOILS; THAWING; WETLANDS;

PERMAFROST;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL WARMING; PEATLAND; PERMAFROST; SOIL TEMPERATURE; THAWING; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79961225114     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-2-121-2011     Document Type: Article

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