Economic impacts of carbon dioxide and methane released from thawing permafrost

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 56-59

  Hope, Chris ^a   Schaefer, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; PERMAFROST; THAWING;

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EID: 84951335999     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2807     Document Type: Article

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