Sentences with phrase «land carbon storage»

You can see the projected change in land carbon storage across the world in the maps below.

While the historical performance of ocean models can be benchmarked against global inventories of ocean carbon, only recently have equivalently robust global estimates been developed for some components of land carbon storage (Saatchi et al 2011) and soils, the largest reservoir, remains very sparsely sampled.

There are a wide range of hypotheses about the dominant controls and key parameter values governing land carbon storage, and a parallel range of ways in which these hypotheses are implemented in the codes of land models.

Therefore, an assumption that the 20 % reduction in land carbon storage resulting from the Lehman et al. work holds globally would yield a reduction on the order of 13 ppm.

The positive feedback of increased soil temperature leading to increased decomposition and therefore natural carbon emissions is a fairly modest contributor to the total projected business as usual carbon emissions over the century: average IPCC AR4 model land carbon storage changes due to climate change yielded a 63 ppm CO2 increase over the counterfactual by the year 2100.

Change in land carbon storage projections from CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) models, under a high emissions scenario (RCP8.5).

Köhler, P., Joos, F., Gerber, S. & Knutti, R. Simulated changes in vegetation distribution, land carbon storage, and atmospheric CO2 in response to a collapse of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation.