Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 40-56

  Luo, Yiqi ^a,b   Ahlström, Anders ^c,d   Allison, Steven D ^e   Batjes, Niels H ^f   Brovkin, Victor ^g   Carvalhais, Nuno ^h,i   Chappell, Adrian ^j   Ciais, Philippe ^k   Davidson, Eric A ^l   Finzi, Adien ^m   Georgiou, Katerina ^n,o   Guenet, Bertrand ^k   Hararuk, Oleksandra ^p   Harden, Jennifer W ^q   He, Yujie ^e   Hopkins, Francesca ^e   Jiang, Lifen ^a   Koven, Charlie ^o   Jackson, Robert B ^c   Jones, Chris D ^r   Lara, Mark J ^s   Liang, Junyi ^a   McGuire, A David ^s,t   Parton, William ^u   Peng, Changhui ^v   Randerson, James T ^e   Salazar, Alejandro ^w   Sierra, Carlos A ^h   Smith, Matthew J ^x   Tian, Hanqin ^y   Todd Brown, Katherine E O ^z   Torn, Margaret ^o   Van Groenigen, Kees Jan ^aa   Wang, Ying Ping ^j   West, Tristram O ^ab   Wei, Yaxing ^ac   Wieder, William R ^ad   Xia, Jianyang ^ae   Xu, Xia ^af   Xu, Xiaofeng ^ag   Zhou, Tao ^ah   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^j CSIRO   (Australia)

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

^l UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^m Boston University   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^p PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^q U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^r MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^t U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^u Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^w PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^y AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^aa NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab Joint Global Change Research Institute   (United States)

^ac OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^ad NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^ae EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^af IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^ah BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

CMIP5; Earth system models; realistic projections; recommendations; soil carbon dynamics

Indexed keywords

CARBON SINK; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PARAMETERIZATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 84956641600     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GB005239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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