A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: X. Morel, B. Hansen, C. Delire, P. Ambus, M. Mastepanov, B. Decharme
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: envir; geo; Arctic; Greenland; Nuuk; Climate change; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2365-2020; https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2365/2020/essd-12-2365-2020.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/cab509fba8bb47958e5c731e842c9c4b

Arctic and boreal peatlands play a major role in the global carbon (C) cycle. They are particularly efficient at sequestering carbon because their high water content limits decomposition rates to levels below their net primary productivity. Their future in a climate-change context is quite uncertain...