Towards rainy Arctic winters: effects of experimental icing on tundra plants and their soil conditions

• Main Authors: Le Moullec, Mathilde, Isaksen, Ketil, Petit Bon, Matteo, Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Svala, Varpe, Øystein, Hendel, Anna-Lena, Beumer, Larissa Teresa, Hansen, Brage Bremset
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Meteorological Institute 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Browning; Global warming; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2636170

Global warming comes with more frequent extreme climate events. In the Arctic, extreme warm spells with heavy rain-on-snow events in winter can cause dramatic changes to the snow-pack and encapsulate the vegetation in thick basal ice for several months. Ice-locked tundra can cause population crashes...