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Fluvial carbon dioxide emission from the Lena River basin during the spring flood
Sergey N. Vorobyev
BIO-GEO-CLIM Laboratory, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Jan Karlsson
Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC), Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 6, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
Yuri Y. Kolesnichenko
BIO-GEO-CLIM Laboratory, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Mikhail A. Korets
V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences – separated department of the KSC SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
Oleg S. Pokrovsky
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Geosciences and Environment Toulouse, UMR 5563 CNRS, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin 31400 Toulouse, France
N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Arkhangelsk, Russia
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In order to quantify riverine carbon (C) exchange with the atmosphere in permafrost regions, we report a first assessment of CO2 and CH4 concentration and fluxes of the largest permafrost-affected river, the Lena River, during the peak of spring flow. The results allowed identification of environmental factors controlling GHG concentrations and emission in the Lena River watershed; this new knowledge can be used for foreseeing future changes in C balance in permafrost-affected Arctic rivers.
In order to quantify riverine carbon (C) exchange with the atmosphere in permafrost regions, we...
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