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Callaghan TV, Shaduyko O, Kirpotin SN, Gordov E. Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking. AMBIO 2021; 50:2104-2127. [PMID: 34586591 PMCID: PMC8479719 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01626-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
Abstract
A recent multidisciplinary compilation of studies on changes in the Siberian environment details how climate is changing faster than most places on Earth with exceptional warming in the north and increased aridity in the south. Impacts of these changes are rapid permafrost thaw and melt of glaciers, increased flooding, extreme weather events leading to sudden changes in biodiversity, increased forest fires, more insect pest outbreaks, and increased emissions of CO2 and methane. These trends interact with sociological changes leading to land-use change, globalisation of diets, impaired health of Arctic Peoples, and challenges for transport. Local mitigation and adaptation measures are likely to be limited by a range of public perceptions of climate change that vary according to personal background. However, Siberia has the possibility through land surface feedbacks to amplify or suppress climate change impacts at potentially global levels. Based on the diverse studies presented in this Ambio Special Issue, we suggest ways forward for more sustainable environmental research and management.
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Affiliation(s)
- Terry V. Callaghan
- University of Sheffield UK. University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK
- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
- Tuvan State University, Republic of Tuva, 36 Lenina St., Kyzyl, Russia 667000
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- Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, SB RAS, 10/3 Academichesky Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634055
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Pascual D, Åkerman J, Becher M, Callaghan TV, Christensen TR, Dorrepaal E, Emanuelsson U, Giesler R, Hammarlund D, Hanna E, Hofgaard A, Jin H, Johansson C, Jonasson C, Klaminder J, Karlsson J, Lundin E, Michelsen A, Olefeldt D, Persson A, Phoenix GK, Rączkowska Z, Rinnan R, Ström L, Tang J, Varner RK, Wookey P, Johansson M. The missing pieces for better future predictions in subarctic ecosystems: A Torneträsk case study. AMBIO 2021; 50:375-392. [PMID: 32920769 PMCID: PMC7782653 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01381-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
Arctic and subarctic ecosystems are experiencing substantial changes in hydrology, vegetation, permafrost conditions, and carbon cycling, in response to climatic change and other anthropogenic drivers, and these changes are likely to continue over this century. The total magnitude of these changes results from multiple interactions among these drivers. Field measurements can address the overall responses to different changing drivers, but are less capable of quantifying the interactions among them. Currently, a comprehensive assessment of the drivers of ecosystem changes, and the magnitude of their direct and indirect impacts on subarctic ecosystems, is missing. The Torneträsk area, in the Swedish subarctic, has an unrivalled history of environmental observation over 100 years, and is one of the most studied sites in the Arctic. In this study, we summarize and rank the drivers of ecosystem change in the Torneträsk area, and propose research priorities identified, by expert assessment, to improve predictions of ecosystem changes. The research priorities identified include understanding impacts on ecosystems brought on by altered frequency and intensity of winter warming events, evapotranspiration rates, rainfall, duration of snow cover and lake-ice, changed soil moisture, and droughts. This case study can help us understand the ongoing ecosystem changes occurring in the Torneträsk area, and contribute to improve predictions of future ecosystem changes at a larger scale. This understanding will provide the basis for the future mitigation and adaptation plans needed in a changing climate.
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- Didac Pascual
- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, 751 28 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Alfred Denny Building, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK
- Department of Botany, National Research Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden
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- Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Mobergavägen 19, 373 54 Senoren, Sweden
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- School of Geography, Think Tank, Ruston Way, Lincoln, LN6 7FL UK
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Torgarden, P.O. Box 5685, 7485 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs., Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Box 513, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden
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- Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Luleå tekniska universitet, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 751 General Services Building, Edmonton, T6G 2H1 Canada
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK
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- Department of Geoenvironmental Research, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation PAS, Św. Jana 22, 31-018 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Morse Hall Rm 455, 8 College Rd., Durham, NH 03824 USA
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- Biology and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland UK
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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Bolduc B, Hodgkins SB, Varner RK, Crill PM, McCalley CK, Chanton JP, Tyson GW, Riley WJ, Palace M, Duhaime MB, Hough MA, Saleska SR, Sullivan MB, Rich VI. The IsoGenie database: an interdisciplinary data management solution for ecosystems biology and environmental research. PeerJ 2020. [DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Modern microbial and ecosystem sciences require diverse interdisciplinary teams that are often challenged in “speaking” to one another due to different languages and data product types. Here we introduce the IsoGenie Database (IsoGenieDB; https://isogenie-db.asc.ohio-state.edu/), a de novo developed data management and exploration platform, as a solution to this challenge of accurately representing and integrating heterogenous environmental and microbial data across ecosystem scales. The IsoGenieDB is a public and private data infrastructure designed to store and query data generated by the IsoGenie Project, a ~10 year DOE-funded project focused on discovering ecosystem climate feedbacks in a thawing permafrost landscape. The IsoGenieDB provides (i) a platform for IsoGenie Project members to explore the project’s interdisciplinary datasets across scales through the inherent relationships among data entities, (ii) a framework to consolidate and harmonize the datasets needed by the team’s modelers, and (iii) a public venue that leverages the same spatially explicit, disciplinarily integrated data structure to share published datasets. The IsoGenieDB is also being expanded to cover the NASA-funded Archaea to Atmosphere (A2A) project, which scales the findings of IsoGenie to a broader suite of Arctic peatlands, via the umbrella A2A Database (A2A-DB). The IsoGenieDB’s expandability and flexible architecture allow it to serve as an example ecosystems database.
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- Benjamin Bolduc
- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
- Department of Earth Sciences, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
- Department of Earth Sciences, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Kirpotin SN, Callaghan TV, Pokrovsky OS, Karlsson J, Vorobiov SN, Kolesnichenko LG, Popravko IG, Kolesnikova TS, Audry S. Russian–EU collaboration via the mega-transect approach for large-scale projects: cases of RF Federal target Programme and SIWA JPI Climate EU Programme. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00207233.2018.1429131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Sergey N. Kirpotin
- Laboratory of Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology, Bio-Clim-Land Centre of Excellence, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Ecosystems and Climate Changes Study, Trans-Siberian Scientific Way Centre, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology, Bio-Clim-Land Centre of Excellence, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology, Bio-Clim-Land Centre of Excellence, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Laboratory for Social and Anthropological Research (TSU LSAR), National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology, Bio-Clim-Land Centre of Excellence, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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Bokhorst S, Pedersen SH, Brucker L, Anisimov O, Bjerke JW, Brown RD, Ehrich D, Essery RLH, Heilig A, Ingvander S, Johansson C, Johansson M, Jónsdóttir IS, Inga N, Luojus K, Macelloni G, Mariash H, McLennan D, Rosqvist GN, Sato A, Savela H, Schneebeli M, Sokolov A, Sokratov SA, Terzago S, Vikhamar-Schuler D, Williamson S, Qiu Y, Callaghan TV. Changing Arctic snow cover: A review of recent developments and assessment of future needs for observations, modelling, and impacts. AMBIO 2016; 45:516-37. [PMID: 26984258 PMCID: PMC4980315 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-016-0770-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Revised: 11/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
Abstract
Snow is a critically important and rapidly changing feature of the Arctic. However, snow-cover and snowpack conditions change through time pose challenges for measuring and prediction of snow. Plausible scenarios of how Arctic snow cover will respond to changing Arctic climate are important for impact assessments and adaptation strategies. Although much progress has been made in understanding and predicting snow-cover changes and their multiple consequences, many uncertainties remain. In this paper, we review advances in snow monitoring and modelling, and the impact of snow changes on ecosystems and society in Arctic regions. Interdisciplinary activities are required to resolve the current limitations on measuring and modelling snow characteristics through the cold season and at different spatial scales to assure human well-being, economic stability, and improve the ability to predict manage and adapt to natural hazards in the Arctic region.
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- Stef Bokhorst
- FRAM – High North Research Centre on Climate and the Environment, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), PO Box 6606, Langnes, 9296 Tromsø Norway
- Department of Ecological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- NASA GSFC Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Code 615, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
- Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research Studies and Investigations, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21044 USA
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- State Hydrological Institute of Roshydromet, 23 Second Line V.O., St.Petersburg, Russia 199053
- International Centre for Science and Education “Best”, North-East Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
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- FRAM – High North Research Centre on Climate and the Environment, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), PO Box 6606, Langnes, 9296 Tromsø Norway
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- Climate Research Division, Environment Canada Ouranos, 550 Sherbrooke St. West, 19th Floor, Montreal, QC H3A 1B9 Canada
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 50005, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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- University Centre in Svalbard, PO Box 156, 9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
- Faculty of Life- and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Leavas Sámi Community, Box 53, 981 21 Kiruna, Sweden
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- Arctic Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
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- IFAC-CNR - Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara”, National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI Italy
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- National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment Canada, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, K1A 0H3 Canada
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- Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS), 360 Albert Street, Suite 1710, Ottawa, ON K1R 7X7 Canada
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- Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, 187-16 Suyoshi, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-0821 Japan
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- Thule Insitute, University of Oulu, PO Box 7300, 90014 Oulu, Finland
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland
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- Arctic Research Station of Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Labytnangi, Russia 629400
- Science Center for Arctic Studies, State Organization of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Salekhard, Russia
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- Arctic Environment Laboratory, Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1, Moscow, Russia 119991
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- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council (ISAC-CNR), Corso Fiume 4, 10133 Turin, Italy
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- Division for Model and Climate Analysis, R&D Department, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Postboks 43, Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW 405, Biological Sciences Bldg., Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9 Canada
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- Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academic of Science, Beijing, 100094 China
- Group on Earth Observations, Cold Regions Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK
- National Research Tomsk Stated University, 36, Lenin Ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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