This study is the first to quantify land carbon cycle feedbacks under decreasing atmospheric CO2 concentration following negative CO2 emissions and compare them to feedbacks under positive emissions. The novel approach presented here reduces the carbon cycle inertia in the phase where atmospheric CO2 concentration decreases in order to improve the quantification of carbon cycle feedbacks under negative emissions. This approach reduced the effectivity of negative emissions in reducing atmospheric CO2, due to larger concentration-carbon and climate-carbon feedbacks.
This study is the first to quantify land carbon cycle feedbacks under decreasing atmospheric CO2...
We propose a new method to quantify carbon cycle feedbacks under negative CO2 emissions. Our method isolates the lagged carbon cycle response to preceding positive emissions from the response to negative emissions. Our findings suggest that feedback parameters calculated with the novel approach are larger than those calculated with the conventional approach whereby carbon cycle inertia is not corrected for, with implications for the effectiveness of carbon dioxide removal in reducing CO2 levels.
We propose a new method to quantify carbon cycle feedbacks under negative CO2 emissions. Our...