Predicting permafrost stability in northern peatlands with climate change and disturbance

• Main Authors: Treat, C C, Wisser, Dominik, Marchenko, S, Humphreys, E R, Frolking, Steve, Huemmrich, K f
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Northwest Territories; Fairbanks; Canada; Daring Lake; Climate change; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/earthsci_facpub/418; http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2010/FM/C31A-0505.html

Permafrost thaw may cause significant carbon loss from northern organic soils, a large terrestrial carbon pool. To predict permafrost stability in organic soils, we adapted an existing soil temperature model (GIPL 2.0) to peatlands by including a three-layer peat soil column and dynamic soil moistur...