B066
Integrated Understanding of Global Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Feedbacks in CMIP6
Integrated Understanding of Global Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Feedbacks in CMIP6
Session ID#: 74139
Session Description:
Assessments of coupled climate–carbon cycle simulations indicate that carbon and other biogeochemical cycle feedbacks are highly uncertain and could significantly alter the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase, affecting climate change over the 21st century and beyond. The terrestrial carbon cycle is directly affected by increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and by climate change, and, further, is altered indirectly by feedbacks from limiting nutrients (e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus). Changes in ocean circulation, stratification, and acidification similarly interact with the changing climate system. This session will focus on an integrated understanding of carbon, nutrient cycles, climate change, human activities, and their interactions and feedbacks to climate in terrestrial and marine ecosystems from the Sixth Phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) simulations. Of particular interest are model evaluation and benchmarking approaches and applications of emergent constraints.
Co-Organized:
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- OS - Ocean Sciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
- WCRP: World Climate Research Programme -
Index Terms:
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Primary Convener: Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners: Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Charles Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison: Forrest M. Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
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