Content and Vulnerability of Fossil Organic Matter in Ice-Rich Siberian Permafrost – a Case Study

• Main Authors: Strauss, Jens, Mangelsdorf, Kai, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Global warming; Ice; laptev; Laptev Sea; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32820/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32820/1/Strauss_EGU2013-159.pdf; http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/orals/12330; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41366; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41366.d001

During the late Pleistocene, a large pool of organic matter (OM) accumulated in ice-rich deposits of the arctic permafrost zone. Because of the potential re-introduction of this stored carbon into the global cycle from degrading permafrost (i.e. decomposed OM) as climate-relevant gases, the OM inven...