Modeling the large-scale effects of surface moisture heterogeneity on wetland carbon fluxes in the West Siberian Lowland

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6559-6576

  Bohn, T J ^a   Podest, E ^b   Schroeder, R ^b,c   Pinto, N ^b   McDonald, K C ^b,c   Glagolev, M ^d,e,f   Filippov, I ^f   Maksyutov, S ^g   Heimann, M ^h   Chen, X ^a   Lettenmaier, D P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f YUGRA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON FLUX; HETEROGENEITY; METHANE; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; THAWING;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN LOWLAND;

EID: 84885728048     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-6559-2013     Document Type: Article

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