Arctic lakes are continuous methane sources to the atmosphere under warming conditions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Tan, Zeli ^a,b   Zhuang, Qianlai ^a,b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic lakes; Climate change; Methane emissions

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAKES;

ARCTIC LAKES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; HIGH LATITUDE WETLANDS; METHANE EMISSION RATES; METHANE EMISSIONS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; THERMOKARST LAKES;

METHANE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON; EMISSION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOKARST; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WETLAND;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; NORTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930225574     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054016     Document Type: Article

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