The role of snow cover affecting boreal-arctic soil freeze–thaw and carbon dynamics

Northern Hemisphere permafrost affected land areas contain about twice as much carbon as the global atmosphere. This vast carbon pool is vulnerable to accelerated losses through mobilization and decomposition under projected global warming. Satellite data records spanning the past 3 decades indicate...

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Main Authors: Y. Yi, J. S. Kimball, M. A. Rawlins, M. Moghaddam, E. S. Euskirchen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2015-10-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/12/5811/2015/bg-12-5811-2015.pdf