Introduction to special section on Synthesis of Recent Terrestrial Methane Emission Studies

Q Zhuang,W S Reeburgh

doi:10.1029/2008jg000749

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Introduction to special section on Synthesis of Recent Terrestrial Methane Emission Studies

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Introduction to special section onSynthesis of Recent Terrestrial Methane Emission StudiesQ
To address some of these issues, the three papers [Walter et al, 2008; Sachs et al, 2008; Gauci et al, 2008b] focus on CH4 emissions and their controls, including effects of permafrost thawing and bubble emissions from thawed lakes in northern high latitudes, ecosystem-scale field observations of CH4 emission from polygonal tundra in the Lena River Delta, Siberia, and the possibility of a large Icelandic volcanic eruption resulting in a large decrease in CH4 emission
This special section is a contribution by the Working Group of ‘‘Toward an adequate quantification of CH4 emissions from land ecosystems: Integrating field and in situ observations, satellite data, and modeling,’’ which was supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a center funded by NSF, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California

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Introduction to special section onSynthesis of Recent Terrestrial Methane Emission StudiesQ. Introduction to special section on Synthesis of Recent Terrestrial Methane Emission Studies

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