Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 40-45

  Zona, Donatella ^a,b   Gioli, Beniamino ^c   Commane, Róisín ^d   Lindaas, Jakob ^d   Wofsy, Steven C ^d   Miller, Charles E ^e   Dinardo, Steven J ^e   Dengel, Sigrid ^f   Sweeney, Colm ^g,h   Karion, Anna ^g   Chang, Rachel Y W ^d,i   Henderson, John M ^j   Murphy, Patrick C ^a   Goodrich, Jordan P ^a   Moreaux, Virginie ^a   Liljedahl, Anna ^k,l   Watts, Jennifer D ^m   Kimball, John S ^m   Lipson, David A ^a   Oechel, Walter C ^a,n  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j JAtmospheric and Environmental Research   (United States)

^k University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

ⁿ OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Aircraft; Fall; Permafrost; Warming; Winter

Indexed keywords

METHANE; SNOW; SURFACE WATER; SOIL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC TUNDRA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; EXHAUST GAS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWING SEASON; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; OXIDATION; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE SOIL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; WARMING; WETLAND; WINTER; ARCTIC; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEASON; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC REGIONS; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHANE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; SOIL; TUNDRA; WETLANDS;

EID: 84953226850     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516017113     Document Type: Article

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