Quantifying uncertainties in soil carbon responses to changes in global mean temperature and precipitation

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 197-209

  Nishina, K ^a   Ito, A ^a   Beerling, D J ^f   Cadule, P ^g   Ciais, P ^g   Clark, D B ^d   Falloon, P ^c   Friend, A D ^e   Kahana, R ^c   Kato, E ^a   Keribin, R ^e   Lucht, W ^b   Lomas, M ^f   Rademacher, T T ^e   Pavlick, R ^h   Schaphoff, S ^b   Vuichard, N ^g   Warszawaski, L ^b   Yokohata, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOSPHERICS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CARBON ACCUMULATION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STATE-SPACE MODELING; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACCUMULATION; BIOME; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL CHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; SIMULATION; SOIL CARBON; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84897565633     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-5-197-2014     Document Type: Article

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