Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

Nonlinear transitions in permafrost carbon feedback and surface albedo feedback have largely been excluded from climate policy studies. Here the authors modelled the dynamics of the two nonlinear feedbacks and the associated uncertainty, and found an important contribution to warming which leads to...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Dmitry Yumashev, Chris Hope, Kevin Schaefer, Kathrin Riemann-Campe, Fernando Iglesias-Suarez, Elchin Jafarov, Eleanor J. Burke, Paul J. Young, Yasin Elshorbany, Gail Whiteman
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
Subjects:
Science
Q
Arctic
albedo
Climate change
permafrost
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09863-x
https://doaj.org/article/d6c4f376dc8f4118a843f20c717acf82
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Summary:Nonlinear transitions in permafrost carbon feedback and surface albedo feedback have largely been excluded from climate policy studies. Here the authors modelled the dynamics of the two nonlinear feedbacks and the associated uncertainty, and found an important contribution to warming which leads to additional economic losses from climate change.

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