Surface water inundation in the boreal-Arctic: Potential impacts on regional methane emissions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Watts, Jennifer D ^a,b   Kimball, John S ^a,b   Bartsch, Annett ^c,d,e,f   McDonald, Kyle C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^g CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; carbon; inundation; methane; microwave remote sensing; permafrost; wetlands

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; MOISTURE; PERMAFROST; SATELLITES; WETTING;

ARCTIC; EMERGENT VEGETATION; INUNDATION; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVE RETRIEVAL; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; MONITORING CHANGE; NORTHERN LATITUDES;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84905270468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075001     Document Type: Article

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