Permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks accelerate global warming

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 14769-14774

  Koven, Charles D ^a,b   Ringeval, Bruno ^a   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^c   Ciais, Philippe ^a   Cadule, Patricia ^a   Khvorostyanov, Dmitry ^d   Krinner, Gerhard ^a   Tarnocai, Charles ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^e AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active layer; Carbon cycle; Cryosphere; Land surface models; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

METHANE; ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LATITUDE; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; WETLAND;

CARBON; COLD CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 80052574264     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103910108     Document Type: Article

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