A comment on ‘Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to global warming. Part I: model description and role of heat generated by organic matter decomposition’ by D. V. Khvorostyanov et al. (2008)
By: L. Kutzbach
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00419.x | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
Language: English
Page range: 577 - 578
Submitted on: Sep 25, 2008
Accepted on: Dec 19, 2008
Published on: Jan 1, 2009
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2009 L. Kutzbach, published by Stockholm University Press
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