Resolving the carbon-climate feedback potential of wetland CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Alaska ...

• Main Author: Ma, Shuang
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Root 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Global warming; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48577/jpl.uqyyhm; https://dataverse.jpl.nasa.gov/citation?persistentId=doi:10.48577/jpl.UQYYHM

Boreal-Arctic regions are key stores of organic carbon (C) and play a major role in the greenhouse gas balance of high-latitude ecosystems. The carbon-climate (C-climate) feedback potential of northern high-latitude ecosystems remains poorly understood due to uncertainty in temperature and precipitation controls on carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake and the decomposition of soil C into CO2 and methane (CH4) fluxes. While CH4 fluxes account for a smaller component of the C balance, the climatic impact of CH4 outweighs CO2 (28-34 times larger Global Warming Potential on a 100-year scale), highlighting the need to jointly resolve the climatic sensitivities of both CO2 and CH4. Here we jointly constrain a terrestrial biosphere model with in situ CO2 and CH4 flux observations at seven eddy covariance sites using a data-model integration approach to resolve the integrated environmental controls on land-atmosphere CO2 and CH4 exchanges in Alaska. Based on the combined CO2 and CH4 flux responses to climate variables, we ...