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How will climate change shift the tundra - taiga interface?

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MODIS true-color, cloud-free composite of the northern hemisphere in 2001. The circumpolar taiga-tundra ecotone benchmarked in this study is about 13,400 km long (Image source: NASA).

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Ranson et al. used MODIS data to map tree cover at the Earth's longest vegetation transition zone.

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Year-round greenhouse gas measurements from the CARVE tower, Alaska

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Location of the CARVE tower (red) and 50% and 80% surface influence contours for the average WRF-STILT influence functions (from Karion et al 2016).

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A new data set investigates the atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 from 2012-2014 in boreal Alaska.

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