Warming and monsoonal climate lead to large export of millennial-aged carbon from permafrost catchments of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Song Chunlin, Wang Genxu, Haghipour Negar, Raymond Peter A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: riverine carbon export; radiocarbon; stable carbon isotope; permafrost; Qinghai-Tibet Plateau river; climate warming; DISSOLVED ORGANIC-CARBON; NORTHERN-HEMISPHERE; SOIL CARBON; RIVERINE EXPORT; YUKON RIVER; FLOW PATH; THAW; DEGRADATION; MATTER; DEPTH; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Yukon; Kolyma; kolyma river; Yukon river
• Online Access: http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/35040; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab83ac

Permafrost carbon pool destabilization causes substantial fluvial export of soil carbon, yet the export patterns and magnitudes are not well understood. Here we investigated the radiocarbon (C-14) in dissolved organic and inorganic carbon (DOC and DIC, respectively) exported from a mid-sized river i...