A simplified permafrost-carbon model for long-term climate studies with the CLIMBER-2 coupled earth system model

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3111-3134

  Crichton, K A ^a,b   Roche, D M ^c,d   Krinner, G ^a,b   Chappellaz, J ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; DECOMPOSITION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; SOIL CARBON;

EID: 84919682460     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-3111-2014     Document Type: Article

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