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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/12/1/014004 |
The large influence of climate model bias on terrestrial carbon cycle simulations | |
Ahlstrom, Anders1,2; Schurgers, Guy3; Smith, Benjamin2 | |
2017 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 12期号:1 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Sweden; Denmark |
英文摘要 | Global vegetation models and terrestrial carbon cycle models are widely used for projecting the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems. Ensembles of such models show a large spread in carbon balance predictions, ranging from a large uptake to a release of carbon by the terrestrial biosphere, constituting a large uncertainty in the associated feedback to atmospheric CO2 concentrations under global climate change. Errors and biases that may contribute to such uncertainty include ecosystem model structure, parameters and forcing by climate output from general circulation models (GCMs) or the atmospheric components of Earth system models (ESMs), e.g. as prepared for use in IPCC climate change assessments. The relative importance of these contributing factors to the overall uncertainty in carbon cycle projections is not well characterised. Here we investigate the role of climate model-derived biases by forcing a single global ecosystem-carbon cycle model, with original climate outputs from 15 ESMs and GCMs from the CMIP5 ensemble. We show that variation among the resulting ensemble of present and future carbon cycle simulations propagates from biases in annual means of temperature, precipitation and incoming shortwave radiation. Future changes in carbon pools, and thus land carbon sink trends, are also affected by climate biases, although to a smaller extent than the absolute size of carbon pools. Our results suggest that climate biases could be responsible for a considerable fraction of the large uncertainties in ESM simulations of land carbon fluxes and pools, amounting to about 40% of the range reported for ESMs. We conclude that climate bias-induced uncertainties must be decreased to make accurate coupled atmosphere-carbon cycle projections. |
英文关键词 | carbon cycle climate change climate model climate bias |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000392402600002 |
WOS关键词 | EARTH SYSTEM MODELS ; VEGETATION DYNAMICS ; UNCERTAINTIES ; SCENARIOS ; STORAGE |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/33194 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Stanford Univ, Sch Earth Energy & Environm Sci, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; 2.Lund Univ, Dept Phys Geog & Ecosyst Sci, Solvegatan 12, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden; 3.Univ Copenhagen, Dept Geosci & Nat Resource Management, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ahlstrom, Anders,Schurgers, Guy,Smith, Benjamin. The large influence of climate model bias on terrestrial carbon cycle simulations[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,12(1). |
APA | Ahlstrom, Anders,Schurgers, Guy,&Smith, Benjamin.(2017).The large influence of climate model bias on terrestrial carbon cycle simulations.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,12(1). |
MLA | Ahlstrom, Anders,et al."The large influence of climate model bias on terrestrial carbon cycle simulations".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 12.1(2017). |
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