Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Jones, Andrew D.; Calvin, Katherine V.; Shi, Xiaoying; Di Vittorio, Alan V.; Bond‐Lamberty, Ben; Thornton, Peter E.; Collins, William D.

doi:10.1029/2018GL079350

Title: Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Journal Article · Mon Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079350· OSTI ID:1562907

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Changes in land and ocean carbon storage in response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and associated climate change, known as the concentration–carbon and climate–carbon feedbacks, are principal controls on the response of the climate system to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Such feedbacks have typically been quantified in the context of natural ecosystems, but land management activities are also responsive to future atmospheric carbon and climate changes. Here we show that inclusion of such human–driven responses within an Earth system model shifts both the terrestrial concentration–carbon and climate–carbon feedbacks toward increased carbon storage. Furthermore, we introduce a conceptual framework for decomposing these changes into separate concentration–land cover, climate–land cover, and land cover–carbon effects, providing a parsimonious means to diagnose sources of variation across numerical models capable of estimating such feedbacks.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830; AC05‐00OR22725; AC02‐05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1562907

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1479511; OSTI ID: 1480629; OSTI ID: 1483268

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-133018; TRN: US2000775

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 45, Issue 20; ISSN 0094-8276

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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