Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon

Newest publications on the topic of permafrost carbon

(this list is not complete)

Belshe, E. F., E. A. G. Schuur, B. M. Bolker, and R. Bracho. 2012. Incorporating spatial heterogeneity created by permafrost thaw into a landscape carbon estimate. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 117, G01026. doi:10.1029/2011JG001836.

DeConto, R. M., S. Galeotti, M. Pagani, D. Tracy, K. Schaefer, T. Zhang, D. Pollard, and D. J. Beerling. 2012. Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost. Nature 484:87-91. doi:10.1038/nature10929

Fountain, A. G., J. L. Campbell, E. A. G. Schuur, S. E. Stammerjohn, M. W. Williams, and H. W. Ducklow. 2012. The Disappearing Cryosphere: Impacts and Ecosystem Responses to Rapid Cryosphere Loss. Bioscience 62: 405-415. doi:10.1525/j.bio.2012.62.4.11.

Gouttevin, I., G. Krinner, P. Ciais, J. Polcher, and C. Legout. 2012. Multi-scale validation of a new soil freezing scheme for a land-surface model with physically-based hydrology. The Cryosphere 6:407-430. doi:10.5194/tc-6-407-2012

Harden, J. W., C. D. Koven, C.-L. Ping, G. Hugelius, A. D. McGuire, P. Camill, T. Jorgenson, P. Kuhry, G. J. Michaelson, J. A. O'Donnell, E. A. G. Schuur, C. Tarnocai, K. Johnson, and G. Grosse. 2012. Field information links permafrost carbon to physical vulnerabilities of thawing. Geophysical Research Letters 39. doi:10.1029/2012gl051958

Hugelius, G. 2012. Spatial upscaling using thematic maps: An analysis of uncertainties in permafrost soil carbon estimates. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 26:GB2026. doi:10.1029/2011gb004154

Hugelius, G. et al. (2012) Mapping the degree of decomposition and thaw remobilization potential of soil organic matter in discontinuous permafrost terrain. J. Geophys. Res., 117, G02030, doi:10.1029/2011JG001873.

Hugelius, G., Tarnocai, C., Broll, G., Canadell, J. G., Kuhry, P., and Swanson, D. K. (2013) The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 3-13, doi:10.5194/essd-5-3-2013

Jones, M. C., G. Grosse, B. M. Jones, and K. Walter Anthony. 2012. Peat accumulation in drained thermokarst lake basins in continuous, ice-rich permafrost, northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska. J. Geophys. Res. 117:G00M07. doi:10.1029/2011jg001766

Knoblauch C., Beer C., Sosnin A., Wagner D., Pfeiffer E-M. 2013 Predicting long-term carbon mineralization and trace gas production from thawing permafrost of Northeast Siberia. Global Change Biology, doi 10.1111/gcb.12116

Lawrence, D. M., A. G. Slater, and S. C. Swenson. 2012. Simulation of Present-Day and Future Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground Conditions in CCSM4. Journal of Climate 25:2207-2225. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00334.1

Lee, H., Schuur, E. A. G., Inglett, K. S., Lavoie, M. and Chanton, J. P. (2012), The rate of permafrost carbon release under aerobic and anaerobic conditions and its potential effects on climate. Global Change Biology, 18: 515–527. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02519.x

Lu, X. and Q. Zhuang. 2012. Modeling methane emissions from the Alaskan Yukon River basin, 1986-2005, by coupling a large-scale hydrological model and a process-based methane model. J. Geophys. Res. doi:117:G02010.10.1029/2011jg001843

MacDougall, A. H., C. A. Avis, and A. J. Weaver. 2012. Significant contribution to climate warming from the permafrost carbon feedback. Nature Geoscience 5:719-721. doi:10.1038/ngeo1573

McGuire, A. D., T. R. Christensen, D. Hayes, A. Heroult, E. Euskirchen, J. S. Kimball, C. Koven, P. Lafleur, P. A. Miller, W. Oechel, P. Peylin, M. Williams, and Y. Yi. 2012. An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions. Biogeosciences 9:3185-3204. doi:10.5194/bgd-9-4543-2012

Mishra, U. & Riley, W. J. (2012) Alaskan soil carbon stocks: spatial variability and dependence on environmental factors, Biogeosciences, 9, 3637-3645, doi:10.5194/bg-9-3637-2012

Natali, S. M., E. A. G. Schuur, and R. L. Rubin. 2012. Increased plant productivity in Alaskan tundra as a result of experimental warming of soil and permafrost. Journal of Ecology 100:488-498. doi:10.5194/bgd-9-5695-2012

Olefeldt, D., Roulet N. T., Bergeron O., Crill P., Bäckstrand K., and T. R. Christensen (2012), Net carbon accumulation of a high-latitude permafrost palsa mire similar to permafrost-free peatlands, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L03501, doi:10.1029/2011GL050355.

Olefeldt, D., and N. T. Roulet (2012), Effects of permafrost and hydrology on the composition and transport of dissolved organic carbon in a subarctic peatland complex, J. Geophys. Res., 117, G01005, doi:10.1029/2011JG001819.

Olefeldt, D., M. R. Turetsky, P. M. Crill, and A. D. McGuire. 2013. Environmental and physical controls on northern terrestrial methane emissions across permafrost zones. Global Change Biology:19, 589–603, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12071

Ping C.-L., Clark M.H., Kimble J.M., Michaelson G.J., Shur Y. & Stiles C.A. (2013). Sampling Protocols for Permafrost-Affected Soils. Soil Horizons, 54. doi:10.2136/sh12-09-0027

Pries, C. E. H., E. A. G. Schuur, and K. G. Crummer. 2012. Holocene Carbon Stocks and Carbon Accumulation Rates Altered in Soils Undergoing Permafrost Thaw. Ecosystems 15:162-173. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12058

Schuur EAG, Abbott BW, Bowden WB et al. 2013 Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change. Climatic Change. doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0730-7

Strauss, J., L. Schirrmeister, S. Wetterich, A. Borchers, and S. P. Davydov (2012), Grain-size properties and organic-carbon stock of Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost from the Kolyma lowland, northeastern Siberia, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 26, GB3003, doi:10.1029/2011GB004104.

Swenson, S. C., D. M. Lawrence, and H. Lee. 2012. Improved simulation of the terrestrial hydrological cycle in permafrost regions by the Community Land Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 4. doi:10.1029/2012MS000165

Trucco, C., E. A. G. Schuur, S. M. Natali, E. F. Belshe, R. Bracho, and J. Vogel. 2012. Seven-year trends of CO2 exchange in a tundra ecosystem affected by long-term permafrost thaw. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 117. doi:10.1029/2011JG001907

von Deimling, T. S., M. Meinshausen, A. Levermann, V. Huber, K. Frieler, D. M. Lawrence, and V. Brovkin. 2012. Estimating the near-surface permafrost-carbon feedback on global warming. Biogeosciences 9:649-665. doi:10.5194/bg-9-649-2012

Vonk, J. E., L. Sanchez-Garcia, B. E. van Dongen, V. Alling, D. Kosmach, A. Charkin, I. P. Semiletov, O. V. Dudarev, N. Shakhova, P. Roos, T. I. Eglinton, A. Andersson, and O. Gustafsson. 2012. Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia. Nature 489:137-140. doi:10.1038/nature11392

 

Some selected publications on the topic permafrost carbon

(before 2011)

Euskirchen, E. S., et al. (2006). "Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems." Global Change Biology 12(4): 731-750.

Grosse, G., et al. (2011). "Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance." Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 116.

Hugelius, G., et al. (2011). "High-resolution mapping of ecosystem carbon storage and potential effects of permafrost thaw in periglacial terrain, European Russian Arctic." J. Geophys. Res. 116(G3): G03024.

Jorgenson, M. T., et al. (2006). "Abrupt increase in permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaska." Geophysical Research Letters 33(2).

Koven, C. D., et al. (2011). "Permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks accelerate global warming." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(36): 14769-14774.

Lawrence, D. M., et al. (2008). "Sensitivity of a model projection of near-surface permafrost degradation to soil column depth and representation of soil organic matter." Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 113(F2).

McGuire, A. D., et al. (2010). "An analysis of the carbon balance of the Arctic Basin from 1997 to 2006." Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology 62(5): 455-474.

McGuire, A. D., et al. (2010). "The carbon budget of the northern cryosphere region." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2(4): 231-236.

Michaelson, G. J. and C. L. Ping (2003). "Soil organic carbon and CO2 respiration at subzero temperature in soils of Arctic Alaska." Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 108(D2).

Osterkamp, T. E. (2007). "Characteristics of the recent warming of permafrost in Alaska." Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 112(F2).

Ping, C.-L., et al. (2008). "High stocks of soil organic carbon in the North American Arctic region." Nature Geoscience 1(9): 615-619.

Schaefer, K., et al. (2011). "Amount and timing of permafrost carbon release in response to climate warming." Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology 63(2): 165-180.

Schirrmeister, L., et al. (2002). "Late Quaternary ice-rich permafrost sequences as a paleoenvironmental archive for the Laptev Sea Region in northern Siberia." International Journal of Earth Sciences 91(1): 154-167.

Schirrmeister, L., et al. (2011). "Fossil organic matter characteristics in permafrost deposits of the northeast Siberian Arctic." J. Geophys. Res. 116: G00M02.

Schuur, E. A. G., et al. (2008). "Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: Implications for the global carbon cycle." Bioscience 58(8): 701-714.

Schuur, E. A. G., et al. (2009). "The effect of permafrost thaw on old carbon release and net carbon exchange from tundra." Nature 459(7246): 556-559.

Tarnocai, C., et al. (2009). "Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region." Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23.

Turetsky, M. R., et al. (2011). "Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands." Nature Geoscience 4(1): 27-31.

Walter, K. M., et al. (2006). "Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming." Nature 443(7107): 71-75.

Zhuang, Q., et al. (2006). "CO2 and CH4 exchanges between land ecosystems and the atmosphere in northern high latitudes over the 21st century." Geophysical Research Letters 33(17).

Zimov, S. A., et al. (2006). "Permafrost and the global carbon budget." Science 312(5780): 1612-1613.

 

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