Quantifying the effects of CO2-fertilized vegetation on future global climate and carbon dynamics

Details Quantifying the effects of CO2-fertilized vegetation on future global climate and carbon dynamics Quantifying the effects of CO2-fertilized vegetation on future global climate and carbon dynamics

Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3123211t&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 23, CiteID L23211

Physics

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions, Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309), Global Change: Biogeochemical Processes (4805), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Land/Atmosphere Interactions

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Climate and the global carbon cycle are a tightly coupled system where changes in climate affect exchange of atmospheric CO2 with the land biosphere and the ocean, and vice-versa. In particular, the response of the land biosphere to the ongoing increase in atmospheric CO2 is not well understood. To evaluate the approximate upper and lower limits of land carbon uptake, we perform simulations using a comprehensive climate-carbon model. In one case the land biosphere is vigorously fertilized by added CO2 and sequesters carbon throughout the 21st century. In a second case, CO2 fertilization saturates in year 2000; here the land becomes an additional source of CO2 by 2050. The predicted atmospheric CO2 concentration at year 2100 differs by 40% between the two cases. We show that current uncertainties preclude determination of whether the land biosphere will amplify or damp atmospheric CO2 increases by the end of the century.

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