Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue
oleh: Feng Cheng, Carmala Garzione, Xiangzhong Li, Ulrich Salzmann, Florian Schwarz, Alan M. Haywood, Julia Tindall, Junsheng Nie, Lin Li, Lin Wang, Benjamin W. Abbott, Ben Elliott, Weiguo Liu, Deepshikha Upadhyay, Alexandrea Arnold, Aradhna Tripati
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01 |
Deskripsi
The stability of permafrost carbon is poorly understood. Here the authors use Plio-Pleistocene clumped isotope reconstructions from the Tibetan Plateau and climate simulation to determine that ~85 petagrams of alpine carbon is vulnerable to thawing.