Weak Northern and Strong Tropical Land Carbon Uptake from Vertical Profiles of Atmospheric CO2

By B. Stephens, Kevin R. Gurney, P. Tans, Colm Sweeney, W. Peters, L. Bruhwiler, Philippe Ciais, M. Ramonet, P. Bousquet, T. Nakazawa and 12 more. Science, 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Inverse Modeling of Global and Regional CH4 Emissions Using SCIAMACHY Satellite Retrievals (2009, methodology): “Therefore, a system with an outer loop for evaluation of the nonlinear model and an inner loop for incremental optimization of the linearized model has been implemented, similar to the ECMWF operational 4DVAR system [Tremolet, 2007] (but with same model resolution in the outer and inner loop).”
Effect of increasing CO2 on the terrestrial carbon cycle (2014, methodology): “(20) showed that filtering inverse models against an additional observational constraint, the vertical gradient of CO2 in the northern hemisphere atmosphere, favored models with a more nearly neutral net flux, leaving room for a CO2-driven storage increase.”
Multi-element regulation of the tropical forest carbon cycle (2011, background): “At the same time, multiple studies suggest that intact tropical forests may be acting as a major sink for excess CO2 (Luyssaert et al. 2007; Stephens et al. 2007; Phillips et al. 2008; Lewis et al. 2009), while others highlight the potential for the tropical C cycle to change markedly with even smal”
Simulation of the present-day climate with the climate model INMCM5 (2017, background): “17 Annual cycle of GPP (GtC/month) for global domain (top, left), Northern hemisphere 20N–90N (top, right), Southern Hemisphere 90S–20S (bottom, left) and tropics 20S–20N (bottom, right) in the model (red) and Stephens et al. (2007) (black) for 1986–2005”
A method for improved SCIAMACHY CO 2 retrieval in the presence of optically thin clouds (2009, background): “Authors: Stephens et al. (2007) draw conclusions on the northern hemispheric and tropical land carbon uptake.”
Using temperature‐dependent changes in leaf scaling relationships to quantitatively account for thermal acclimation of respiration in a coupled global climate–vegetation model (2008, background): “In a recent global study (Stephens et al., 2007), tropical ecosystems were found to represent a stronger carbon sink than suggested by existing coupled GCMs.”