Synthesis of Arctic System Science: Greening of the Arctic

Publications:

• *Alcaraz, D., E. Chuvieco, and H. Epstein. Temporal trends in post-fire regeneration patterns of boreal forests using 1km AVHRR NDVI (in prep.).
• *Bhatt, U.S., D. A. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, J. C. Comiso 'Influence of Regional Sea Ice Variability on Arctic Tundra' in Seventh International Conference on Global Change: Connection to the Arctic (GCCA-7), 19-20 February, 2007, Fairbanks, Alaska, pages 76-78.
• *Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, M.K. Raynolds, J.C. Comiso. 2007. Influence of Regional Sea Ice Variability on Arctic Tundra. CMOS/CGU/AMS 2007 Congress Meeting, St John's, Newfoundland Canada, 31 May 2007 (poster date). Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Canadian Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society.
• *Bhatt, U. S., D. A. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, J. Comiso, and H. E. Epstein. 2008 in prep.-a. Panarctic trend and variability in the land-ocean margins of sea-ice concentrations, land-surface temperatures, and tundra vegetation greenness. Earth Interactions.
• *Bhatt, U. S., D. A. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, J. Comiso, and H. E. Epstein. 2008 in prep.-b. Role of atmospheric processes in trends and variability of sea-ice, land-surface temperatures, and tundra vegetation greenness in Alaska. Atmospheric Research.
• *Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, M. Raynolds, J. Comiso. 2007. The relationship between sea ice variability and arctic tundra on the pan-Arctic, regional and site scales. Eos Trans. AGU 88 (52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract U41C-0612.
• *Bhatt, U., D. Walker, M. Raynolds, and J. Comiso. 2008. Examining relationships between sea ice and Arctic vegetation on the Pan-Arctic, regional and site scales. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts 10:EGU2008-A-11271, http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU12008/11271/EGU12008-A-11271.pdf.
• Comiso, J. C. and F. Nishio. (2008), Trends in the sea ice cover using enhanced and compatible AMSR-E, SSM/I, and SMMR data, J. Geophys. Res. 113, C02S07, doi:10.1029/2007JC004257.
• Comiso, J.C., C.L. Parkinson, R. Gersten, and L. Stock (2008), Accelerated decline in the Arctic sea ice cover, Geophy. Res. Lett. 35, L01703, doi:10.1029/2007GL031972.
• *Cook, B.I., G.B. Bonan, S. Levis, and H.E. Epstein. 2008. The thermal insulative effect of snow in the climate system. Climate Dynamics 31:107-124.
• *Cook, B.I., G.B. Bonan, S. Levis, and H.E. Epstein. 2007. Rapid vegetation responses and feedbacks amplify climate model response to snow cover changes. Climate Dynamics 30:391-406.
• *Cook, B.I., H.E. Epstein, T.M. Smith, and J.O. Kaplan. Artic Oscillation and El Niño Southern Oscillation induced climate impacts and terrestrial ecosystem responses. (in prep.)
• *Epstein, H.E., J.O. Kaplan, H. Lischke, and Q. Yu. 2007. Simulating future changes in arctic and sub-arctic vegetation. Climate Dynamics Jul/Aug 2001:12-23.
• Epstein, H. E., D. A. Walker, P. Kuss, E. Karlejaärvi, and G. Matyshak. 2008. Tundra vegetation properties along a latitudinal gradient of the Yamal Region of Russia European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts 10:EGU2008-A-04406, http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU02008/04406/EGU02008-A-04406.pdf.
• Epstein, H. E., D. A. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, G. J. Jia, and A. M. Kelley (2008), Phytomass patterns across a temperature gradient of the North American arctic tundra, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G03S02, doi:10.1029/2007JG000555.
• *Goetz, S.J., H.E. Epstein, F. Achard, D. Alcaraz, U. Bhatt, A. Bunn, J. Comiso, M. Hansen, G.J. Jia, J.O. Kaplan, H. Lischke, A. Lloyd, D.A. Walker, and Q. Yu. (Submitted) Vegetation productivity and disturbance changes across arctic northern Eurasia: Satellite observations and simulation modeling. In: Gutman, G. and P. Groisman, and Reissell. (ed.) Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate.
• *Jia, G.J., H.E. Epstein and D.A. Walker. 2008. Vegetation greening in the Canadian Arctic related to warming. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences in press.
• *Jia, G.J., H.E. Epstein, and D.A. Walker. 2007. Trends in vegetation greenness in the Arctic from1982-2005. Eos Trans. AGU 88 (52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract B21-0041.
• Kade, A. and D.A. Walker. 2008. Experimental alteration of vegetation on nonsorted circles: effects on cryogenic activity and implications for climate change in the Arctic. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 40: 96-103.
• Leibman, M.O., H.E. Epstein, A.V. Khomutov, N.G. Moskalenko, D.A. Walker. 2008. Relation of active layer to depth to vegetation on the central Yamal Peninsula, Russia. 177-178 in: Kane, D.L. and K.M. Hinkle. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Extended Abstracts.
• Ping, C.-L., G. J. Michaelson, M. T. Jorgenson, J. M. Kimble, H. Epstein, V. E. Romanovsky, and D. A. Walker. 2008. High stocks of soil organic carbon in North American Arctic region. Nature Geoscience 1:615-619.
• Raynolds, M.K., D. A. Walker and H. A. Maier. 2006. NDVI patterns and phytomass distribution in the circumpolar Arctic. Remote Sensing of Environment 102:271-28.
• *Raynolds, M. K., J. C. Comiso, D. A. Walker, and D. Verbyla. 2008. Relationship between satellite-derived land surface temperatures, arctic vegetation types, and NDVI. Remote Sensing of the Environment 112:1884-1894.
• *Raynolds, M.K and D.A. Walker. 2008. Circumpolar relationships between permafrost characteristics, NDVI and arctic vegetation types. 1469-1474 in: Kane, D.L. and K.M. Hinkle. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
• *Raynolds, M. K. and Walker, D. A. 2008 (accepted, in revision): The effects of deglaciation on circumpolar distribution of arctic vegetation. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.
• *Raynolds, M. K., D. A. Walker, C. A. Munger, C. M. Vonlanthen, and A. N. Kade (2008), A map analysis of patterned-ground along a North American Arctic Transect, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G03S03, doi:10.1029/2007JG000512.
• *Raynolds, M.K. 2009 in prep. Synthesis of circumpolar controls on NDVI.
• Richter-Menge, J., J. Overland, M. Svoboda, J. Box, M. J. J. E. Loonen, A. Proshutinsky, V. Romanovsky, D. Russell, C. D. Sawatzk, M. Simpkins, I. R. Armstrong, Ashik, L.-S. Bai, D. Bromwich, J. Cappelen, E. Carmack, J. Comiso, B. Ebbinge, I. Frolov, J. C. Gascard, M. Itoh, G. J. Jia, R. Krishfield, F. McLaughlin, W. Meier, N. Mikkelsen, J. Morison, T. Mote, S. Nghiem, D. Perovich, I. Polyakov, J. D. Reist, B. Rudels, U. Schauer, A. Shiklomanov, K. Shimada, V. Sokolov, M. Steele, M.-L. Timmermans, J. Toole, B. Veenhuis, D. Walker, J. Walsh, M. Wang, A. Weidick, and C. Zöckler. 2008. Arctic Report Card 2008. http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
• *Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, V.E. Romanovsky, G.P. Kofinas, J.P. Kuss, B.C. Forbes, F. Stammler, T. Kumpula, E. Kaarlejärvi, M.O. Leibman, N.G. Moskalenko, A.A. Gubarkov, A.V. Khomutov, D.S. Drozdov, H.E. Epstein, Q. Yu, G.J. Jia, J.O. Kaplan, J.C. Comiso. 2008a (submitted). Cumulative effects of rapid land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. In: Gutman, G. and P. Groisman, and Reissell. (ed.) Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate.
• *Walker, D. A., H. E. Epstein, and J. M. Welker (2008b), Introduction to special section on Biocomplexity of Arctic Tundra Ecosystems, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G03S00, doi:10.1029/2008JG000740.
• *Walker, D. A., H. E. Epstein, V. E. Romanovsky, C. L. Ping, G. J. Michaelson, R. P. Daanen, Y. Shur, R. A. Peterson, W. B. Krantz, M. K. Raynolds, W. A. Gould, G. Gonzalez, D. J. Nicolsky, C. M. Vonlanthen, A. N. Kade, P. Kuss, A. M. Kelley, C. A. Munger, C. T. Tarnocai, N. V. Matveyeva, and F. J. A. Daniëls (2008c), Arctic patterned-ground ecosystems: A synthesis of field studies and models along a North American Arctic Transect, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G03S01, doi:10.1029/2007JG000504.
• *Walker, D. A., and Greening of the Arctic Team. 2008d. Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts 10:EGU2008-A-05697, http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU02008/05697/EGU02008-A-05697.pdf.
• *Walker, D.A., T.D. Hamilton, C.L. Ping, R.P. Daanen, W.W. Streever. 2008e. Dalton Highway Field Trip Guide for the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost. Guidebook 9. State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 110 pp.
• Walker, D. A., H.A. Maier, E.M. Barbour. 2008f. A web-based arctic geobotanical atlas and a new hierarchy of maps of the Toolik Lake Region, Alaska, 1893-1898 in: Kane, D.L. and K.M. Hinkle. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• *Walker, D. A., M. K. Raynolds, and W. A. Gould. 2008g. Fred Daniëls, Subzone A, and the North American Arctic Transect. Abhandlungen aus dem Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde 70:387-400.
• Vonlanthen, C. M., D. A. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, A. Kade, H. P. Kuss, F. J. A. Daniëls, and N. V. Matveyeva. 2008 Patterned-ground plant communities along a bioclimate gradient in the High Arctic, Canada. Phytocoenologia 28:23-63.
• *Yu, Q. and H. Epstein. 2008. Evaluating Arctic Tundra System Resilience to Grazing Disturbances: A Modeling Approach. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 10: EGU2008-A-12154. http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2008/12154/EGU2008-A-12154-1.pdf.

*Acknowledgement to ARC 0531180 included in the paper.