Permafrost and climate change: carbon cycle feedbacks from the warming Arctic

EAG Schuur, BW Abbott, R Commane… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Rapid Arctic environmental change affects the entire Earth system as thawing permafrost
ecosystems release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding how much …

Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

AM Irrgang, M Bendixen, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coasts are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and
the loss of permafrost, sea ice and glaciers. Assessing the influence of anthropogenic …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions

BM Jones, G Grosse, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The formation, growth and drainage of lakes in Arctic and boreal lowland permafrost regions
influence landscape and ecosystem processes. These lake and drained lake basin (L-DLB) …

Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology

AK Liljedahl, J Boike, RP Daanen, AN Fedorov… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Ice wedges are common features of the subsurface in permafrost regions. They develop by
repeated frost cracking and ice vein growth over hundreds to thousands of years. Ice-wedge …

21st-century modeled permafrost carbon emissions accelerated by abrupt thaw beneath lakes

K Walter Anthony, T Schneider von Deimling… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Permafrost carbon feedback (PCF) modeling has focused on gradual thaw of near-surface
permafrost leading to enhanced carbon dioxide and methane emissions that accelerate …

Permafrost soils and carbon cycling

CL Ping, JD Jastrow, MT Jorgenson, GJ Michaelson… - Soil, 2015 - soil.copernicus.org
Knowledge of soils in the permafrost region has advanced immensely in recent decades,
despite the remoteness and inaccessibility of most of the region and the sampling limitations …

Past permafrost dynamics can inform future permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks

MC Jones, G Grosse, C Treat, M Turetsky… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Climate warming threatens to destabilize vast northern permafrost areas, potentially
releasing large quantities of organic carbon that could further disrupt the climate. Here we …

Cumulative geoecological effects of 62 years of infrastructure and climate change in ice‐rich permafrost landscapes, Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska

MK Raynolds, DA Walker, KJ Ambrosius… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many areas of the Arctic are simultaneously affected by rapid climate change and rapid
industrial development. These areas are likely to increase in number and size as sea ice …

Polar regions. chapter 3, ipcc special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

M Meredith, M Sommerkorn, S Cassotta, C Derksen… - 2019 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …