Rivers across the Siberian Arctic unearth the patterns of carbon release from thawing permafrost

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Wild, Birgit, Andersson, August, Bröder, Lisa, Vonk, Jorien, Hugelius, Gustaf, McClelland, James W., Song, Wenjun, Raymond, Peter A., Gustafsson, Örjan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2019
• Subjects: Physical Sciences; Arctic; Kolyma; Yenisey; Global warming; permafrost; Thermokarst; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6535028/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061130; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811797116

Climate warming is expected to mobilize northern permafrost and peat organic carbon (PP-C), yet magnitudes and system specifics of even current releases are poorly constrained. While part of the PP-C will degrade at point of thaw to CO(2) and CH(4) to directly amplify global warming, another part wi...