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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    a sample. TOC determinations are made in a variety of application areas. For example, TOC may be used as a non-specific indicator of water quality, or...
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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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (2009). "Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region". Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 23 (2). doi:10.1029/2008GB003327. ISSN 1944-9224...
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    its known plant species. Despite this scarcity, they account for about 23% of terrestrial carbon fixation. Increasing the proportion of C4 plants on earth...
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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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    arctic environment, permafrost dynamics and thermokarst, lake ice systems, coastal and lake shoreline erosion, aquatic and terrestrial ecology, near-surface...
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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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    capacity in each region. For example, in polar regions where temperatures are more susceptible to drastic changes, melting permafrost can expose more land...
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    2010 reported the global median C:N:P to be 163:22:1. For his 1934 paper, Alfred Redfield analyzed nitrate and phosphate data for the Atlantic, Indian...
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    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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    In particular, their up-scaling method for calculating global estimates for methane emissions by terrestrial plants was criticized. A number of follow-up...
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