The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: Olefeldt, David, Hovemyr, Mikael, Kuhn, McKenzie A., Bastviken, David, Bohn, Theodore J., Connolly, John, Crill, Patrick, Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Finkelstein, Sarah A., Genet, Helene, Grosse, Guido, Harris, Lorna I, Heffernan, Liam, Helbig, Manuel, Hugelius, Gustaf, Hutchins, Ryan, Juutinen, Sari, Lara, Mark J., Malhotra, Avni, Manies, Kristen, McGuire, A. David, Natali, Susan M., ODonnell, Jonathan A., Parmentier, Frans-Jan W., Raesaenen, Aleksi, Schaedel, Christina, Sonnentag, Oliver, Strack, Maria, Tank, Suzanne E., Treat, Claire, Varner, Ruth K., Virtanen, Tarmo, Warren, Rebecca K., Watts, Jennifer D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring 2021
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Naturgeografi; Arctic; Canada; Pacific; Pew; Weyerhaeuser; Climate change; First Nations; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-181193; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5127-2021

Methane emissions from boreal and arctic wetlands, lakes, and rivers are expected to increase in response to warming and associated permafrost thaw. However, the lack of appropriate land cover datasets for scaling field-measured methane emissions to circumpolar scales has contributed to a large unce...