A permafrost implementation in the simple carbon–climate model Hector v.2.3pf

• Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
• Main Authors: Woodard, Dawn L., Shiklomanov, Alexey N., Kravitz, Ben, Hartin, Corinne, Bond-Lamberty, Ben
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Hector; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4751-2021; https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/14/4751/2021/

Permafrost currently stores more than a fourth of global soil carbon. A warming climate makes this carbon increasingly vulnerable to decomposition and release into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases. The resulting climate feedback can be estimated using land surface models, but the high...