Water-Carbon Dynamics in Eastern Siberia, 1st ed. 2019
Ecological Studies Series, Vol. 236

This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades. It analyzes the relationships between precipitation and evapotranspiration, gross primary production and runoff in the permafrost regions, which differ from those intropical and temperate forests.  

Eastern Siberia is located in the easternmost part of the Eurasian continent, and the land surface with underlying permafrost has developed over a period of seventy thousand years. The permafrost ecosystem has specific hydrological and meteorological characteristics in terms of the water and carbon dynamics, and the current global warming and resulting changes in the permafrost environment are serious issues in the high-latitude regions.  

The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and professionals interested in forest meteorology and hydrology, forest ecology, and boreal vegetation, as well as the impact of climate change and water-carbon cycles in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.

1.      Introduction

Climate, permafrost and forest: OHTA Takeshi (Nagoya Univ.)

2.      Atmospheric water cycle in eastern Siberia

OSHIMA Kazuhiro (JAMSTEC)

HIYAMA Tetsuya (Nagoya Univ.)

3.      Water cycle in forest

Water budget: KOTANI Ayumi (Nagoya Univ.), OHTA Takeshi (Nagoya Univ.)

(including the recent waterlogging and the difference of location)

Surface conductance

Aerodynamic conductance

4.       Carbon dioxide cycle in forest

MAXIMOV Trofim (IBPC)_, KOTANI Ayumi (Nagoya Univ.)

5.      Methane and BVOC

 CH4: van HUISSTEDEN Jacobus (Vri

 BVOC: ANERTH Almut (Karisruhe Ins. Technology)

(The separate parts of the chapter is OK.)

6.      Water cycle in stable isotope ecology

SUGIMOTO Atsuko (Hokkaido Univ.) or younger researches

TEI Syunsuke (NIPR)

7.      Water-carbon cycle in dendro-ecology

TEI Syunsuke (NIPR), SUGIMTO Atsuko (Hokkaido Univ.)

8.      Permafrost-forest dynamic

IIJIMA Yoshihiro (JAMSTEC), FEDOROV Alexandar (MPI)

9.      River Discharge

HIYAMA Tetsuya (Nagoya Univ.), HATTA Shigemi (National Institute of Technology, Tomakomai College)

10.  Remote sensing in vegetation

11.  Remote sensing in terrestrial water

SUZUKI Kazuyoshi (JAMSTEC)

12.  Water-carbon cycle modelling

PARK Hoteck (JAMSTEC), YAMAZAKI Takeshi (Tohoku Univ.)

Describes the processes of ecohydrology, permafrost hydrology, meteorology, and climatology in the context of water, energy, and carbon exchanges in the Arctic circumpolar region of eastern Siberia

Discusses the unique water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region in eastern Siberia, which is not seen in non-permafrost regions (tropical and mid-latitude regions)

Highlights water-carbon dynamics influenced by the changing permafrost environment in recent decades