Water body distributions across scales: a comparison of three Arctic wetlands

• Main Authors: Muster, Sina, Heim, Birgit, Abnizova, Anna, Boike, Julia
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrow Peninsula; Bathurst Island; Bear Pass; Polar Bear Pass; albedo; Barrow; lena river; Thermokarst; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31792/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31792/1/Muster_wbscales_AGU_v04_A1.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.40636; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.40636.d001

Water bodies are ubiquitous features in Arctic wetlands, ranging from very small polygonal ponds to very large thermokarst lakes. Ponds, i.e. waters with a surface area smaller than 1 ha, have been recognized as hotspots of biological activity and greenhouse gas emissions. Regional and global models...