NOAA Arctic Report Card 2024 : Tundra Greenness

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• Personal Author:
  Frost, Gerald V. ; Macander, Matthew J. ; Bhatt, Uma S. ; Berner, Logan T. ; Assmann, Jakob J. ; Epstein, Howard E. ; Forbes, Bruce C. ; Goetz, Scott J. ; Karlsen, Stein Rune ; Lara, Mark J. ; López-Blanco, Efrén ; Magnússon, Rune Í. ; Montesano, Paul M., ; Neigh, Christopher S. R. ; Phoenix, Gareth K. ; Tømmervik, Hans ; Waigl, Christine ; Walker, Donald A. ; Yang, Daryl
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. ; Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (U.S.) ; Goddard Space Flight Center. ; NORCE Norwegian Research Centre. ; Alaska Biological Research, Inc. ; Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks. ; School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich. ; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. ; Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. ; Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois. ; Department of Geography, University of Illinois. ; Department of Ecoscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University. ; Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University & Research. ; ADNET Systems, Inc. ; School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield. ; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, FRAM – High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment. ; University of Alaska Fairbanks. Institute of Arctic Biology. ; Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing) ; PMEL (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
• Description:
  The Arctic tundra biome occupies Earth’s northernmost lands, covering a 5.1 million km2 area that encircles the Arctic Ocean and is bound to the south by the boreal forest biome (Raynolds et al. 2019). Arctic tundra ecosystems are experiencing profound changes as vegetation and underlying permafrost soils are strongly influenced by rising air temperatures and the rapid decline of sea ice (see essays Surface Air Temperature and Sea Ice). By the late 1990s, an increase in the productivity of tundra vegetation became evident in global satellite observations, a phenomenon that continued and soon became known as “the greening of the Arctic.” Arctic greening is dynamically linked with Earth’s changing climate, seasonal snow, permafrost, and sea-ice cover, and remains a focus of multi-disciplinary scientific research.
• Subjects:
  • Tundra ecology
  • Climatic changes
  • Arctic regions
  • Research
• Series:
  NOAA technical report OAR ARC 24-09 (Arctic Report Card)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/5t2g-fm41
• Format:
  pdf
• Publisher:
  NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research - https://ror.org/02kgve346 ; NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program - https://ror.org/037bamf06 ; NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory - https://ror.org/03crn0n59
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  Arctic Ocean
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/66844/noaa_66844_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 10.18 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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