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Title: Increasing summer net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI

Abstract

Warmer temperatures and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last several decades have been credited with increasing vegetation activity and photosynthetic uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere in the high northern latitude ecosystems: the boreal forest and arctic tundra. At the same time, soils in the region have been warming, permafrost is melting, fire frequency and severity are increasing, and some regions of the boreal forest are showing signs of stress due to drought or insect disturbance. The recent trends in net carbon balance of these ecosystems, across heterogeneous disturbance patterns, and the future implications of these changes are unclear. Here, we examine CO2 fluxes from northern boreal and tundra regions from 1985 to 2012, estimated from two atmospheric inversions (RIGC and Jena). Both used measured atmospheric CO2 concentrations and wind fields from interannually variable climate reanalysis. In the arctic zone, the latitude region above 60°N excluding Europe (10 W-63°E), neither inversion finds a significant long-term trend in annual CO2 balance. The boreal zone, the latitude region from approximately 50–60°N, again excluding Europe, showed a trend of 8–11 TgCyr-2 over the common period of validity from 1986 to 2006, resulting in an annual CO2 sink in 2006 that was 170–230more » TgCyr-1 larger than in 1986. This trend appears to continue through 2012 in the Jena inversion as well. In both latitudinal zones, the seasonal amplitude of monthly CO2 fluxes increased due to increased uptake in summer, and in the arctic zone also due to increased fall CO2 release. These findings suggest that the boreal zone has been maintaining and likely increasing CO2 sink strength over this period, despite browning trends in some regions and changes in fire frequency and land use. Meanwhile, the arctic zone shows that increased summer CO2 uptake, consistent with strong greening trends, is offset by increased fall CO2 release, resulting in a net neutral trend in annual fluxes. Finally, the inversion fluxes from the arctic and boreal zones covering the permafrost regions showed no indication of a large-scale positive climate–carbon feedback caused by warming temperatures on high northern latitude terrestrial CO2 fluxes from 1985 to 2012.« less

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Whitworth Univ., Spokane, WA (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
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USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
OSTI Identifier:
1271470
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OSTI ID: 1436131
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SC0005090; SC0012167
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)
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Journal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online) Journal Volume: 16 Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 1680-7324
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Copernicus Publications, EGU
Country of Publication:
Germany
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English
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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Welp, Lisa R., Patra, Prabir K., Rödenbeck, Christian, Nemani, Rama, Bi, Jian, Piper, Stephen C., and Keeling, Ralph F. Increasing summer net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI. Germany: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.5194/acp-16-9047-2016.
Welp, Lisa R., Patra, Prabir K., Rödenbeck, Christian, Nemani, Rama, Bi, Jian, Piper, Stephen C., & Keeling, Ralph F. Increasing summer net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI. Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9047-2016
Welp, Lisa R., Patra, Prabir K., Rödenbeck, Christian, Nemani, Rama, Bi, Jian, Piper, Stephen C., and Keeling, Ralph F. Mon . "Increasing summer net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI". Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9047-2016.
@article{osti_1271470,
title = {Increasing summer net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI},
author = {Welp, Lisa R. and Patra, Prabir K. and Rödenbeck, Christian and Nemani, Rama and Bi, Jian and Piper, Stephen C. and Keeling, Ralph F.},
abstractNote = {Warmer temperatures and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last several decades have been credited with increasing vegetation activity and photosynthetic uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere in the high northern latitude ecosystems: the boreal forest and arctic tundra. At the same time, soils in the region have been warming, permafrost is melting, fire frequency and severity are increasing, and some regions of the boreal forest are showing signs of stress due to drought or insect disturbance. The recent trends in net carbon balance of these ecosystems, across heterogeneous disturbance patterns, and the future implications of these changes are unclear. Here, we examine CO2 fluxes from northern boreal and tundra regions from 1985 to 2012, estimated from two atmospheric inversions (RIGC and Jena). Both used measured atmospheric CO2 concentrations and wind fields from interannually variable climate reanalysis. In the arctic zone, the latitude region above 60°N excluding Europe (10 W-63°E), neither inversion finds a significant long-term trend in annual CO2 balance. The boreal zone, the latitude region from approximately 50–60°N, again excluding Europe, showed a trend of 8–11 TgCyr-2 over the common period of validity from 1986 to 2006, resulting in an annual CO2 sink in 2006 that was 170–230 TgCyr-1 larger than in 1986. This trend appears to continue through 2012 in the Jena inversion as well. In both latitudinal zones, the seasonal amplitude of monthly CO2 fluxes increased due to increased uptake in summer, and in the arctic zone also due to increased fall CO2 release. These findings suggest that the boreal zone has been maintaining and likely increasing CO2 sink strength over this period, despite browning trends in some regions and changes in fire frequency and land use. Meanwhile, the arctic zone shows that increased summer CO2 uptake, consistent with strong greening trends, is offset by increased fall CO2 release, resulting in a net neutral trend in annual fluxes. Finally, the inversion fluxes from the arctic and boreal zones covering the permafrost regions showed no indication of a large-scale positive climate–carbon feedback caused by warming temperatures on high northern latitude terrestrial CO2 fluxes from 1985 to 2012.},
doi = {10.5194/acp-16-9047-2016},
journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)},
number = 14,
volume = 16,
place = {Germany},
year = {Mon Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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