On carbon transport and fate in the East Siberian Arctic land-shelf-atmosphere system

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Semiletov, Igor P ^a,b   Shakhova, Natalia E ^a,b   Sergienko, Valentin I ^c   Pipko, Irina I ^b   Dudarev, Oleg V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; carbon; carbon dioxide; methane; permafrost; sediments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884676294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015201     Document Type: Review

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