Frozen ponds: Production and storage of methane during the Arctic winter in a lowland tundra landscape in northern Siberia, Lena River delta

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 977-990

  Langer, M ^a   Westermann, S ^b,c   Walter Anthony, K ^d   Wischnewski, K ^a   Boike, J ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; EMISSION; LANDSCAPE; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD; TUNDRA; WINTER;

LENA RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84923123009     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-977-2015     Document Type: Article

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