Present-day permafrost carbon feedback from thermokarst lakes

• Main Authors: Walter Anthony, Katey M., Daanen, Ronald, Anthony, Peter, Schneider von Deimling, Thomas, Ping, Chien-Lu, Chanton, Jeffrey P., Grosse, Guido
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Hayes; Koven; Schaefer; Strauss; permafrost; Thermokarst; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42537/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42537/1/ICOP_2016_Book-of-Abstracts_315.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.49196; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.49196.d001

Rapid temperature rise during recent decades (IPCC 2013) is causing permafrost in the Arctic to warm and thaw. This thaw exposes previously frozen soil organic carbon (SOC) to microbial decomposition, generating greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in a feedback process that leads...