The interaction of climate change and methane hydrates

CD Ruppel, JD Kessler - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gas hydrate, a frozen, naturally‐occurring, and highly‐concentrated form of methane,
sequesters significant carbon in the global system and is stable only over a range of low …

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) …

Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

D Olefeldt, S Goswami, G Grosse, D Hayes… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Thermokarst is the process whereby the thawing of ice-rich permafrost ground causes land
subsidence, resulting in development of distinctive landforms. Accelerated thermokarst due …

[PDF][PDF] Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles

P Ciais, C Sabine, G Bala… - … of Working Group …, 2014 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
This chapter addresses the biogeochemical cycles of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
and nitrous oxide (N2O). The three greenhouse gases have increased in the atmosphere …

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

EAG Schuur, AD McGuire, C Schädel, G Grosse… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Large quantities of organic carbon are stored in frozen soils (permafrost) within Arctic and
sub-Arctic regions. A warming climate can induce environmental changes that accelerate …

Abrupt increase in thermokarst lakes on the central Tibetan Plateau over the last 50 years

J Luo, F Niu, Z Lin, M Liu, G Yin, Z Gao - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermokarst lakes are an important ecosystem component in permafrost terrains; therefore,
quantifying changes in these lakes is important for evaluating the water balance and carbon …

Climate-sensitive northern lakes and ponds are critical components of methane release

M Wik, RK Varner, KW Anthony, S MacIntyre… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Lakes and ponds represent one of the largest natural sources of the greenhouse gas
methane. By surface area, almost half of these waters are located in the boreal region and …

Building Eora: a global multi-region input–output database at high country and sector resolution

M Lenzen, D Moran, K Kanemoto… - Economic Systems …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
There are a number of initiatives aimed at compiling large-scale global multi-region input–
output (MRIO) tables complemented with non-monetary information such as on resource …

Methane emissions from wetlands: biogeochemical, microbial, and modeling perspectives from local to global scales

SD Bridgham, H Cadillo‐Quiroz, JK Keller… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the dynamics of methane (CH 4) emissions is of paramount importance
because CH 4 has 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and is …