Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © The Authors, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is
posted here by permission of National Academy of Sciences of the USA for personal use, not for redistribution. The
definitive version was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 102 (2005): 11201-11206, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504949102.
Description:
Climate change is expected to influence the capacities of the land and oceans to act as repositories for anthropogenic CO2 and hence provide a feedback to climate change. A series of experiments with the National Center for Atmospheric Research–Climate System Model 1 coupled carbon–climate model shows that carbon sink strengths vary with the rate of fossil fuel emissions, so that carbon storage capacities of the land and oceans decrease and climate warming accelerates with faster CO2 emissions. Furthermore, there is a positive feedback between the carbon and climate systems, so that climate warming acts to increase the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 and amplify the climate change itself. Globally, the amplification is small at the end of the 21st century in this model because of its low transient climate response and the near-cancellation between large regional changes in the hydrologic and ecosystem responses. Analysis of our results in the context of comparable models suggests that destabilization of the tropical land sink is qualitatively robust, although its degree is uncertain.
Description:
This work was supported
by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant NSF ATM-9987457,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) EOS-IDS
Grant NAG5-9514, NASA Carbon Cycle Program Grant NAG5-11200,
the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Ocean and Climate
Change Institute of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Keywords:
Carbon dioxide
;
Climate change
;
Land carbon sink
;
Ocean carbon sink
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Woods Hole Open Access Server
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