DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14991410
title: Gridded product of methane emissions from Boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes

description: Methane emissions from the Boreal-Arctic region are likely to increase due to warming and permafrost thaw, but the magnitude of this increase is unconstrained. Here we show that distinguishing several wetland and lake classes improves our understanding of current and future methane emissions. 

These spatial data were created using the R scripts with the mixed linear effects models and upscaling procedures found in https://github.com/kenziekuhn4/bawldCH4_scaling

The results of this analysis are in  "Current and future methane emissions from Boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes" (in review).

Lead author is McKenzie Kuhn. Correspondence can be sent to kuhn.mckenzie@gmail.com

Units of the variables in the product are:-Methane emissions: g CH4 m-2 yr-1 (m-2 represents total grid cell area)

The spatial resolution of the product is 0.5 degrees and covers the boreal-Arctic biomes. The files are in WGS84.

The ESRI shape file includes 5 data layers:



Annual emissions from wetlands (bogs, fens, marshes, permafrost bogs, wet tundra): "wet_an"

Annual emissions from lakes: "Lake_an"

Annual emissions from rivers: "RIV_an"

Annual emissions from upland tundra: "upT"

Annual emissions from rivers: "Bor_an"

Annual emissions from all ecosystems: "total"


 

Coauthors on the manuscript include: 

Authors: McKenzie Kuhn1*, David Olefeldt1, Kyle A. Arndt2, David Bastviken3, Lori Bruhwiler4, Patrick Crill5,6, Tonya DelSontro7, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard8, Guido Grosse9,10, Mikael Hovemyr11, Gustaf Hugelius11,6, Sally MacIntyre12, Avni Malhotra13, A. David McGuire14, Youmi Oh4,15, Ben Poulter16, Claire Treat9, Merritt R. Turetsky17, Ruth Varner18,19, Katey M. Walter Anthony20, Jennifer Watts2, Zhen Zhang21

Affiliations:

1Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA 3Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change, Linköping University, Sweden 4Global Monitoring Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA 5Dept of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden 6Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Sweden 7Department of Earth System and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada 8Earth System Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA 99354 9Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany 10Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany  11Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden 12Marine Science Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 13Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA 99354 14Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA 15Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 16NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 17Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, CO 18 Department of Earth Sciences and Earth System Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA 19Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA 20Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK 99775 21 Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

*Now at the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada