The impacts of recent permafrost thaw on land-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Hayes, Daniel J ^a   Kicklighter, David W ^b   McGuire, A David ^c   Chen, Min ^d   Zhuang, Qianlai ^d   Yuan, Fengming ^a   Melillo, Jerry M ^b   Wullschleger, Stan D ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arctic; boreal; carbon; modeling; permafrost

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODELS; THAWING;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; BOREAL; DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST; FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GAS EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROCESS-BASED MODELING;

PERMAFROST;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; DECOMPOSITION; EMISSION; FOSSIL FUEL; FROZEN GROUND; GAS EXCHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; MOBILIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONALITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; THAWING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84928099220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/045005     Document Type: Article

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