Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue
dc.contributor.author | Cheng, F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Garzione, C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Li, X. | |
dc.contributor.author | Salzmann, U. | |
dc.contributor.author | Schwarz, F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Haywood, A.M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tindall, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nie, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Li, L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Abbott, B.W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Elliott, B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Upadhyay, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Arnold, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tripati, A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-25T20:52:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-25T20:52:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cheng, F., Garzione, C., Li, X., Salzmann, U., Schwarz, F., Haywood, A. M., Tindall, J., Nie, J., Li, L., Wang, L., Abbott, B. W., Elliott, B., Liu, W., Upadhyay, D., Arnold, A., & Tripati, A. (2022). Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue. Nature Communications. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 35288572 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-022-29011-2 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/664118 | |
dc.description.abstract | Estimates of the permafrost-climate feedback vary in magnitude and sign, partly because permafrost carbon stability in warmer-than-present conditions is not well constrained. Here we use a Plio-Pleistocene lacustrine reconstruction of mean annual air temperature (MAAT) from the Tibetan Plateau, the largest alpine permafrost region on the Earth, to constrain past and future changes in permafrost carbon storage. Clumped isotope-temperatures (Δ47-T) indicate warmer MAAT (~1.2 °C) prior to 2.7 Ma, and support a permafrost-free environment on the northern Tibetan Plateau in a warmer-than-present climate. Δ47-T indicate ~8.1 °C cooling from 2.7 Ma, coincident with Northern Hemisphere glacial intensification. Combined with climate models and global permafrost distribution, these results indicate, under conditions similar to mid-Pliocene Warm period (3.3–3.0 Ma), ~60% of alpine permafrost containing ~85 petagrams of carbon may be vulnerable to thawing compared to ~20% of circumarctic permafrost. This estimate highlights ~25% of permafrost carbon and the permafrost-climate feedback could originate in alpine areas. © 2022, The Author(s). | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.type | text | |
dc.contributor.department | College of Science, University of Arizona | |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Communications | |
dc.description.note | Open access journal | |
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dc.eprint.version | Final published version | |
dc.source.journaltitle | Nature Communications | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-04-25T20:52:01Z |