Article on energy budget published in Nature Communications

A new study titled "Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget" is recently published in Nature Communications. Among the authors is the LATICE researchers Frans-Jan Parmentier and Norbert Pirk.

Illustration photo of snow on Svalbard (by  NVE/Keyser@LRKHskredgrupe / regObs).

Illustration photo of snow on Svalbard (by  NVE/Keyser@LRKHskredgrupe / regObs).

The LATICE researchers contributed to this paper with data from the flux tower in Adventdalen on Svalbard.

This study is the largest pan-Arctic synthesis of its kind and shows the importance of vegetation type for the arctic surface energy balance. For example, it shows that differences between vegetation types can be as large as the difference between vegetation and a glacier.

This topic is relevant for LATICE due to its focus on the surface energy balance in Arctic environments.

Reference to the article:
Oehri, J., Schaepman-Strub, G., Kim, JS. et al. Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budgetNat Commun 13, 6379 (2022). 

URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34049-3

Published Nov. 8, 2022 11:14 AM - Last modified Nov. 21, 2022 3:16 PM