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Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to global warming. Part I: model description and role of heat generated by organic matter decomposition Cover

Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to global warming. Part I: model description and role of heat generated by organic matter decomposition

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 60 (2008): Issue 2
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|Jan 2008
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00333.x | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 250 - 264
Submitted on: Nov 3, 2005
Accepted on: Nov 8, 2007
Published on: Jan 1, 2008
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2008 D. V. Khvorostyanov, G. Krinner, P. Ciais, M. Heimann, S. A. Zimov, published by Stockholm University Press
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