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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-343-2021
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Research article
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18 Jan 2021
Research article |
| 18 Jan 2021
| 18 Jan 2021
Variability of the surface energy balance in permafrost-underlain boreal forest
Simone Maria Stuenzi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Julia Boike
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
William Cable
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Ulrike Herzschuh
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Stefan Kruse
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Luidmila A. Pestryakova
Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Belinskogo str. 58, 677000 Yakutsk, Russia
Thomas Schneider von Deimling
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Sebastian Westermann
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands vei 1, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, Sem Sålands vei 1, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Evgenii S. Zakharov
Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia
Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Belinskogo str. 58, 677000 Yakutsk, Russia
Moritz Langer
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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Short summary
Boreal forests in eastern Siberia are an essential component of global climate patterns. We use a physically based model and field measurements to study the interactions between forests, permanently frozen ground and the atmosphere. We find that forests exert a strong control on the thermal state of permafrost through changing snow cover dynamics and altering the surface energy balance, through absorbing most of the incoming solar radiation and suppressing below-canopy turbulent fluxes.
Boreal forests in eastern Siberia are an essential component of global climate patterns. We use...
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