Carbon isotope ratios suggest no additional methane from boreal wetlands during the rapid Greenland Interstadial 21.2

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1962-1976

  Sperlich, Peter ^a,b,c   Schaefer, Hinrich ^c   Mikaloff Fletcher, Sara E ^c   Guillevic, Myriam ^a,d,e   Lassey, Keith ^c,f   Sapart, Célia J ^g,h   Röckmann, Thomas ^g   Blunier, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^f Lassey Research and Education Ltd   (New Zealand)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

boreal wetlands; carbon isotopes; ice cores; methane; precipitation; tropical wetlands

Indexed keywords

BOREAL KINGDOM; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; ICE CORE; INTERSTADIAL; METHANE; MIXING RATIO; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPICAL REGION; WARMING; WETLAND;

ARCTIC; ASIA; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; SOUTH AMERICA;

AZADIRACHTA INDICA;

EID: 84955202969     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GB005007     Document Type: Article

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