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Warming from freezing soils

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Freezing and thawing of soils leads to large pulses of nitrous oxide release. An empirical model shows that cropland winter nitrous oxide emissions are substantial, calling for a revision of the global nitrous oxide budget.

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Figure 1: Locations of field studies that report soil N2O emissions during winter or freeze–thaw events.

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  1. Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Benjamin Wolf are at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstraβe 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany,

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Butterbach-Bahl, K., Wolf, B. Warming from freezing soils. Nature Geosci 10, 248–249 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2915

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