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Research article
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14 Nov 2017
Research article |
| 14 Nov 2017
Land-use and land-cover change carbon emissions between 1901 and 2012 constrained by biomass observations
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Shushi Peng
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and
Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Chao Yue
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Yilong Wang
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Martin Thurner
Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES)
and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91
Stockholm, Sweden
Sassan S. Saatchi
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800
Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Almut Arneth
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research – Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Valerio Avitabile
Centre for Geo-Information and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University
& Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
Nuno Carvalhais
Department for Biogeochemical Integration, Max-Planck-Institute for
Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
CENSE, Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente,
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa,
Caparica, Portugal
Anna B. Harper
College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University
of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Etsushi Kato
Institute of Applied Energy, Minato, Tokyo 105-0003, Japan
Charles Koven
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley Lab,
Berkeley, CA, USA
Yi Y. Liu
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science & Climate
Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South
Wales 2052, Australia
Julia E.M.S. Nabel
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Yude Pan
USDA Forest Service, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Julia Pongratz
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Benjamin Poulter
Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research – Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Science and Birmingham
Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Maurizio Santoro
GAMMA Remote Sensing, 3073 Gümligen, Switzerland
Stephen Sitch
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter,
Exeter, UK
Benjamin D. Stocker
Climate and Environmental Physics, and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Imperial College London, Life Science Department, Silwood Park,
Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
Nicolas Viovy
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Andy Wiltshire
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, UK
Rasoul Yousefpour
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
current address: Chair of Forestry Economics and Forest
Planning, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Sönke Zaehle
Department for Biogeochemical Integration, Max-Planck-Institute for
Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Data sets
Global, regional, and national fossil-fuel CO2 emissions T. A. Boden, G. Marland, and R. J. Andres https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/00001
Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems N. Carvalhais, M. Forkel, M. Khomik, J. Bellarby, M. Jung, M. Migliavacca, M. Mu, S. Saatchi, M. Santoro, M. Thurner, U. Weber, B. Ahrens, C. Beer, A. Cescatti, J. T. Randerson, and M. Reichstein https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13731
Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass Y. Y. Liu, A. I. J. M. van Dijk, R. A. M. de Jeu, J. G. Canadell, M. F. McCabe, J. P. Evans, and G. Wang https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2581
Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere M. Santoro, A. Beaudoin, C. Beer, O. Cartus, J. E. S. Fransson, R. J. Hall, C. Pathe, C. Schmullius, D. Schepaschenko, A. Shvidenko, M. Thurner, and U. Wegmuller https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.005
Short summary
We used several observation-based biomass datasets to constrain the historical land-use change carbon emissions simulated by models. Compared to the range of the original modeled emissions (from 94 to 273 Pg C), the observationally constrained global cumulative emission estimate is 155 ± 50 Pg C (1σ Gaussian error) from 1901 to 2012. Our approach can also be applied to evaluate the LULCC impact of land-based climate mitigation policies.
We used several observation-based biomass datasets to constrain the historical land-use change...
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