Articles | Volume 18, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3981-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3981-2021
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02 Jul 2021
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Additional carbon inputs to reach a 4 per 1000 objective in Europe: feasibility and projected impacts of climate change based on Century simulations of long-term arable experiments

Elisa Bruni, Bertrand Guenet, Yuanyuan Huang, Hugues Clivot, Iñigo Virto, Roberta Farina, Thomas Kätterer, Philippe Ciais, Manuel Martin, and Claire Chenu

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elisabruni/Century\_inverted\_4per1000: Inverse modeling with Century (Version v1.0.0) Elisa Bruni https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5036268

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Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is beneficial for climate change mitigation and food security. One way to enhance SOC stocks is to increase carbon input to the soil. We estimate the amount of carbon input required to reach a 4 % annual increase in SOC stocks in 14 long-term agricultural experiments around Europe. We found that annual carbon input should increase by 43 % under current temperature conditions, by 54 % for a 1 °C warming scenario and by 120 % for a 5 °C warming scenario.
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