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Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
Biogeosciences, 16, 917–926, 2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-917-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Biogeosciences, 16, 917–926, 2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-917-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Research article 27 Feb 2019

Research article | 27 Feb 2019

Evaluating the simulated mean soil carbon transit times by Earth system models using observations

Jing Wang et al.

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Soil is critical in mitigating climate change mainly because soil carbon turns over much slower in soils than vegetation and the atmosphere. However, Earth system models (ESMs) have large uncertainty in simulating carbon dynamics due to their biased estimation of soil carbon transit time (τsoil). Here, the τsoil estimates from 12 ESMs that participated in CMIP5 were evaluated by a database of measured τsoil. We detected a large spatial variation in measured τsoil across the globe.
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