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Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3293-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3293-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
Research article
 | 
11 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 11 Oct 2018

Carbonaceous material export from Siberian permafrost tracked across the Arctic Shelf using Raman spectroscopy

Robert B. Sparkes, Melissa Maher, Jerome Blewett, Ayça Doğrul Selver, Örjan Gustafsson, Igor P. Semiletov, and Bart E. van Dongen

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3293-2018-supplement

Data sets

Raman spectra as x,y text files Robert Sparkes, Melissa Maher, Jerome Blewett https://doi.org/10.23634/MMUDR.00620205

Fitted raman spectra Robert Sparkes, Melissa Maher, Jerome Blewett https://doi.org/10.23634/MMUDR.00620207

Metadata of fitted spectra (peak height, width, location) Robert Sparkes, Melissa Maher, Jerome Blewett https://doi.org/10.23634/MMUDR.00620209

Model code and software

Fitting script Robert Sparkes https://doi.org/10.23634/MMUDR.00620208

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Short summary
Ongoing climate change in the Siberian Arctic region has the potential to release large amounts of carbon, currently stored in permafrost, to the Arctic Shelf. Degradation can release this to the atmosphere as greenhouse gas. We used Raman spectroscopy to analyse a fraction of this carbon, carbonaceous material, a group that includes coal, lignite and graphite. We were able to trace this carbon from the river mouths and coastal erosion sites across the Arctic shelf for hundreds of kilometres.
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