Arctic Report Card 2021:Tundra Greenness

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• Personal Author:
  Frost, G. V. ; Macander, M. J. ; Bhatt, U. S. ; Berner, L. T. ; Bjerke, J. W. ; Epstein, H. E. ; Forbes, B. C. ; Goetz, S. J. ; Lara, M. J. ; Park, T. ; Phoenix, G. K. ; Serbin, S. P. ; Tømmervik, H. ; Walker, D. A. ; Yang, D.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. ; Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing)
• Description:
  Earth's northernmost continental landmasses and island archipelagos are home to the Arctic tundra biome, a 5.1 million km2 region characterized by low-growing, treeless vegetation adapted to short, cool summers (CAVM Team 2003). The Arctic tundra biome has long been a "hotspot" of global environmental change, because vegetation and underlying permafrost soils are strongly influenced by warming air temperatures and the rapid decline of sea ice on the nearby Arctic Ocean (Bhatt et al. 2021; see essays Surface Air Temperature and Sea Ice).
• Subjects:
  • Tundra ecology
  • Climatic changes
  • Vegetation greenness
  • Monitoring
• Keywords:
  • Arctic Report Card
• Series:
  NOAA Technical Report OAR ARC 21-08
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/8n78-wp73
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  Arctic regions
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/34310/noaa_34310_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 585.98 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c389222efba372b20e2901879d8a65dac3c70ff6ca3c3a6890b23eba4cf1cd51