Arctic carbon cycle issue: a study from NASA
Based on a scientific study compiled by NASA on data from the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), carbon in Alaska’s tundra ecosystems resides for 13% of time in frozen soil compared to 40 years ago. The carbon cycle is accelerating with unusual rhythms for the Arctic. The tundra develops some of the characteristics of a different ecosystem — a boreal forest according to study co-author Anthony Bloom of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The impact on the carbon cycle, analyzed in the Arctic, is global due to atmospheric warming and involves seasonal changes in the long term. The research team analyzed data from over 40 years of measurements of the carbon dioxide surface of the Barrow, Alaska Observatory of NOAA with the addition of satellite, air and surface data and the study is recently published in the journal Science Advances.
Source: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2776/arctic-carbon-cycle-is-speeding-up/
