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Climate-driven shifts in continental net primary production implicated as a driver of a recent abrupt increase in the land carbon sink
Wolfgang Buermann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and
Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Claudie Beaulieu
Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton,
University of Southampton, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
Bikash Parida
Civil Engineering Department, Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, 203207 UP,
India
David Medvigy
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, 08540
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
George J. Collatz
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight
Center, 20771 Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Justin Sheffield
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, 08540 Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Jorge L. Sarmiento
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, 08540
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Short summary
Recent analyses of the global carbon budget found a substantial increase in the land sink in the late 1980s whose origin remains unknown. Consistent with this shift, we find that plant growth increased in the late 1980s especially in Eurasia and northern Africa. There, climatic constraints on plant growth have eased possibly due to linked climate modes in the North Atlantic. Better understanding of North Atlantic climate may be essential for more credible projections of the land carbon sink.
Recent analyses of the global carbon budget found a substantial increase in the land sink in the...
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