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January 09, 2013

A New Way to Study Permafrost Soil, Above and Below Ground
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2013
What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It's part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere. The new approach combines several remote-sensing tools to study the Arctic landscape-above and below ground-in high resolution and over large spatial scales. It was developed by a ... read more

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