Zooming out: from local snapshots to a pan-arctic inventory of Arctic ponds and lakes

• Main Authors: Muster, Sina, Roth, Kurt, Morgenstern, Anne, Bartsch, Annett, Grosse, Guido, Langer, Moritz, Boike, Julia
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrow Peninsula; Canada; Indigirka; Mackenzie Delta; Mackenzie River; Yamal Peninsula; Yellowknife; Yukon; Barrow; lena river; Mackenzie river; permafrost; Polar Research; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35908/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35908/1/s17_muster_v06.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43816; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43816.d001

The millions of ponds and small lakes in Arctic lowlands have been identified as biogeochemical hotspots with high process rates regarding the turnover of energy and carbon. The rapidly warming Arctic climate does affect the surface inundation due to changes in the water balance and/or permafrost de...