Constraining future terrestrial carbon cycle projections using observation-based water and carbon flux estimates

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2198-2215

  Mystakidis, Stefanos ^a,b   Davin, Edouard L ^a   Gruber, Nicolas ^b   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a,b  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMIP5 projections; Emergent constraints; Evaluation; Evapotranspiration; Gross primary productivity; Net biome productivity; Terrestrial carbon cycle

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY; WATER;

EID: 84959860330     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13217     Document Type: Article

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