Changes in soil organic carbon storage predicted by Earth system models during the 21st century

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2341-2356

  Todd Brown, K E O ^a   Randerson, J T ^a   Hopkins, F ^a   Arora, V ^b   Hajima, T ^c   Jones, C ^d   Shevliakova, E ^e   Tjiputra, J ^f   Volodin, E ^g   Wu, T ^h   Zhang, Q ⁱ   Allison, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^g INSTITUTE OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

^h NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

ⁱ BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PERMAFROST; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TUNDRA; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84899491402     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-2341-2014     Document Type: Article

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