Trends in high northern latitude soil freeze and thaw cycles from 1988 to 2002

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• Main Authors: Smith, Nicole V., Saatchi, Sassan S., Randerson, James T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2004
• Subjects: remote sensing; soil freezeâ€thaw; northern latitudes; Boreas; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jd004472

In boreal and tundra ecosystems the freeze state of soils limits rates of photosynthesis and respiration. Here we develop a technique to identify the timing of freeze and thaw transitions of high northern latitude land areas using satellite data from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (S...