Nature Communications (Mar 2022)
Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue
- 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
Affiliations
- Feng Cheng
- Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University
- Carmala Garzione
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester
- Xiangzhong Li
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Earth System Science, Yunnan University
- Ulrich Salzmann
- Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University
- Florian Schwarz
- Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University
- Alan M. Haywood
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane
- Julia Tindall
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane
- Junsheng Nie
- Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
- Lin Li
- College of Science, University of Arizona
- Lin Wang
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Benjamin W. Abbott
- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University
- Ben Elliott
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, University of California
- Weiguo Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Science
- Deepshikha Upadhyay
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, University of California
- Alexandrea Arnold
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, University of California
- Aradhna Tripati
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, University of California
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29011-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
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.
