Time Scales of Terrestrial Carbon Response Related to Land-Use Application: Implications for Initializing an Earth System Model

Earth Interactions

Lori T.Sentman¹ 

关键词: Terrestrial carbon;    Land use;   

DOI  :  10.1175/2011EI401.1

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: American Geophysical Union

【 摘 要 】

AbstractThe dynamic vegetation and carbon cycling component, LM3V, of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) prototype Earth system model (ESM2.1), has been designed to simulate the effects of land use on terrestrial carbon pools, including secondary vegetation regrowth. Because of the long time scales associated with the carbon adjustment, special consideration is required when initializing the ESM when historical simulations are conducted. Starting from an equilibrated, preindustrial climate and potential vegetation state in an offline land-only model (LM3V), estimates of historical land use are instantaneously applied in five experiments beginning in the following calendar years: 1500, 1600, 1700, 1750, and 1800. This application results in the land carbon pools experiencing an abrupt change—a carbon shock—and the secondary vegetation needs time to regrow into consistency with the harvesting history. The authors find that it takes approximately 100 years for the vegetation to recover from the...

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