Sensitivity of active-layer freezing process to snow cover in Arctic Alaska

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Yi, Yonghong, Kimball, John S., Chen, Richard H., Moghaddam, Mahta, Miller, Charles E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic; Merra; Alaska North Slope; north slope; permafrost; The Cryosphere; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-197-2019; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00003489; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00003447/tc-13-197-2019.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/197/2019/tc-13-197-2019.pdf

The contribution of cold-season soil respiration to the Arctic–boreal carbon cycle and its potential feedback to the global climate remain poorly quantified, partly due to a poor understanding of changes in the soil thermal regime and liquid water content during the soil-freezing process. Here, we c...