The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN‐P) is the primary international programme concerned with monitoring permafrost parameters. GTN‐P was...
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organizations. Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) is a WMO network for monitoring of the active layer and the Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP)...
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address them. It convenes International Permafrost Conferences and maintains Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost, which undertakes special projects such...
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that time. Permafrost represents a large carbon reservoir, one which was often neglected in the initial research determining global terrestrial carbon reservoirs...
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Tipping points in the climate system (redirect from Runaway global warming)
boreal permafrost abrupt thaw. Tipping points exists in a range of systems, for example in the cryosphere, within ocean currents, and in terrestrial systems...
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Indirectly, human-induced changes in the global climate cause widespread modifications to the terrestrial ecosystem's function in the carbon cycle. As...
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Carbon cycle (redirect from Global carbon cycle)
Carbon Observatory – Failed NASA climate satellite Permafrost carbon cycle – Sub-cycle of the larger global carbon cycle Riebeek, Holli (16 June 2011). "The...
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has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost under the tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places...
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"Evaluating the effects of terrestrial ecosystems, climate and carbon dioxide on weathering over geological time: a global-scale process-based approach"...
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Primary production (redirect from Terrestrial primary production)
organisms responsible for primary production are known as primary producers or autotrophs, and form the base of the food chain. In terrestrial ecoregions, these...
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accounts for the exchange of gaseous carbon compounds, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), between Earth's atmosphere, the oceans, and the terrestrial biosphere...
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ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores. NSIDC is part of the University of Colorado Boulder Cooperative Institute for Research...
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Peatland (section Global distribution)
(2015-04-16). "Global distribution of soil organic carbon – Part 1: Masses and frequency distributions of SOC stocks for the tropics, permafrost regions, wetlands...
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Causes of climate change (redirect from Attribution of global warming)
amplification of Arctic temperature changes. Arctic amplification is also thawing permafrost, which releases methane and CO2 into the atmosphere. Climate change can...
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significant global carbon sink; boreal forest soil holds 200 Gt of carbon while boreal peatlands hold 400 Gt of carbon. Northernmost permafrost regions contain...
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Atmospheric methane (section Global monitoring)
ruminant animals. Methane is also released in the Arctic for example from thawing permafrost. Increasing methane emissions are a major contributor to...
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Whale feces (section Indicator for diet composition)
large animals, play a significant role in the transport of nutrients in global ecological cycles. Population reduction of whales and other large animals...
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covered by ice and permafrost. The future of the permafrost is uncertain because the Arctic has been warming at three times the global average as a result...
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Carbon sequestration (redirect from Carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems)
found in living plants and animals. About 70% of the global soil organic carbon in non-permafrost areas is found in the deeper soil within the upper metre...
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Taiga (redirect from Effects of global warming on boreal forests)
Discontinuous permafrost is found in areas with mean annual temperature below freezing, whilst in the Dfd and Dwd climate zones continuous permafrost occurs...
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subenvironments such as freshwater sampling, seawater sampling, terrestrial soil sampling (tundra permafrost), aquatic soil sampling (river, lake, pond, and ocean...
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Water on Mars (section Mars Global Surveyor)
Earth. By analogy with these terrestrial features, it has been argued for many years that these may be regions of permafrost. This would suggest that frozen...
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Retrogressive thaw slump (category Permafrost)
thaw slumps (RTS) are a type of landslide that occur in the terrestrial Arctic's permafrost region of the circumpolar Northern Hemisphere when an ice-rich...
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was "very unlikely that gas clathrates (mostly methane) in deeper terrestrial permafrost and subsea clathrates will lead to a detectable departure from the...
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land and ocean sinks, due to factors such as warming oceans or thawing permafrost. As a result, a greater proportion of anthropogenic emissions remains...
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encircles the shore of the Arctic Ocean. The ground beneath this land is permafrost (frozen year-round). In these difficult growing conditions, few plants...
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Climate change in Norway (redirect from Economic effects of global warming in Norway)
the current global distribution of permafrost here. Permafrost plays three important roles in the context of climate change; a mechanism for temperature...
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net community production and the biological carbon flux in the ocean". Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 28 (1): 14–28. Bibcode:2014GBioC..28...14E. doi:10...
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system of equations that adhere to the principles of chemical thermodynamics. For most of the 20th century, chemical equilibria in marine and freshwater systems...
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high loads of terrestrial derived CDOM, with an estimated ~20–30% of terrestrial DOC being rapidly photodegraded and consumed. Global estimates also...
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