Barriers to predicting changes in global terrestrial methane fluxes: Analyses using CLM4Me, a methane biogeochemistry model integrated in CESM

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1925-1953

  Riley, W J ^a   Subin, Z M ^a   Lawrence, D M ^b   Swenson, S C ^b   Torn, M S ^a   Meng, L ^c   Mahowald, N M ^d   Hess, P ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^d Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DECOMPOSITION; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAGNITUDE; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXIDATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TRANSPIRATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 79960585904     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-1925-2011     Document Type: Article

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