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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Soil carbon (section Global carbon cycle)
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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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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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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