terrestrial biosphere
Climate Feedbacks on the Terrestrial Biosphere and the Economics of Climate Policy: An Application of FUND ESRI WP288, April 2009
... For the Pigou tax, there are two effects at work. Firstly, higher concentrations imply higher marginal damage costs. Secondly, abatement not only reduces anthropogenic emissions, but also the feedback on the ...
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Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr
... The terrestrial biosphere (vegetation and soil) is estimated to contain around 2000 PgC (Prentice et ...the terrestrial biosphere was significantly ...the terrestrial biosphere ...
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Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long term multifactor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment
... Multi-factor experiments are often advocated as important for advancing terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs), yet to date such models have only been tested against single-factor experiments. We applied 10 ...
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The Yale Interactive terrestrial Biosphere model version 1.0: description, evaluation and implementation into NASA GISS ModelE2
... land biosphere, atmospheric chemistry and climate are intricately interconnected, yet the modeling of carbon–climate and chemistry–climate interactions have evolved as entirely separate research ...Interactive ...
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Assimilating solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence into the terrestrial biosphere model BETHY-SCOPE v1.0: model description and information content
... We assessed the ability of satellite SIF observations to con- strain uncertainty in model parameters and uncertainty in spatiotemporal patterns of simulated GPP using a process- based terrestrial biosphere ...
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Quantifying the influence of the terrestrial biosphere on glacial–interglacial climate dynamics
... the terrestrial biosphere can influence climate is via variations in the carbon stored in vegetation and ...and terrestrial carbon isotopes ...
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Variability of phenology and fluxes of water and carbon with observed and simulated soil moisture in the Ent Terrestrial Biosphere Model (Ent TBM version 1.0.1.0.0)
... Ent Terrestrial Biosphere Model (Ent TBM) is a mixed-canopy dynamic global vegetation model devel- oped specifically for coupling with land surface hydrology and general circulation models ...
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Dynamics of the terrestrial biosphere, climate and atmospheric CO 2 concentration during interglacials: a comparison between Eemian and Holocene
... This effect is enhanced by a positive radiation anomaly for the summer months (Fig. the temperature anomaly became negative for the region north of 60 ◦ N, and the development of vegetat[r] ...
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A new model of the coupled carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles in the terrestrial biosphere (QUINCY v1.0; revision 1996)
... of terrestrial ecosystems are shaped by the coupled cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and these cycles are strongly dependent on the availability of water and ...trial biosphere responses to ...
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Coupled climate–carbon cycle simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum atmospheric CO2 decrease using a large ensemble of modern plausible parameter sets
... the terrestrial bio- sphere carbon inventory was reduced (Crowley, 1995; Adams and Faure, 1998; Ciais et ...in terrestrial carbon is generally attributed to unfavourable climatic conditions for ...
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Optimization of a prognostic biosphere model for terrestrial biomass and atmospheric CO 2variability
... in terrestrial biosphere mod- eling, as well as in atmospheric and oceanic modeling, based on various a priori ...in terrestrial carbon studies and the improvements required in such methods have been ...
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Systematic study of the impact of fresh water fluxes on the glacial carbon cycle
... Changing the background climate can have an important effect on the evolution of the carbon cycle when fresh wa- ter is added, both because the initial state is different, so that the repartition of carbon in the ...
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Dynamics of resource production and utilisation in two component biosphere human and terrestrial carbon systems
... in terrestrial biosphere modelling, in: Predictions in Ungauged Basins: International Perspectives on the State-of-the-Art and Pathways Forward (IAHS Publica- tion ...in terrestrial biogeochemical ...
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The Conservation Implications of Introduced Trout and Beaver on Native Fish in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile
... Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile harbors two successful invaders: beaver (Castor canadensis) and trout (Salmo trutta, Salvelinus fontinalis, and Oncorhynchus mykiss), which dominate the aquatic ecosystems on the ...
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CTDAS-Lagrange v1.0: a high-resolution data assimilation system for regional carbon dioxide observations
... Figure 2. The time stepping flow of the ensemble Kalman smoother filter used in CTDAS-Lagrange. The Xp(n) and Xa(n) represent the prior and optimized state vector of a 20-day period shown as two colored bars from left to ...
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The Terrestrial Metasystem
... magnetosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere systems generate a global.. 71.[r] ...
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An estimate of the total DNA in the biosphere
... The total information content of prokaryotes was found from the product of the mean ge- nome size of prokaryotes and estimates of the total number of prokaryotes on the earth, giving a value of 1.6 × 10 31 Mb. It was ...
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What is missing in biosphere reserves accountability?
... this problem enabling BRs to reach predefined set of spatially explicit quantitative targets, while minimizing the reserves’ overall costs (i.e. opportunity, implementation, land value, etc.). Our case study is the ...
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Depression Among Pregnant Latinas In South Carolina
... UNESCO’s current biosphere model renders the transition zone as a site of conservation intervention on the part of the Reserve. Again, the MAP states, “the transition area, in addition to the development function, ...
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The sub-lethal effects of repeated cold exposure in insects
... Temperature varies on multiple temporal and spatial scales in terrestrial environments. Insects are integral parts of every terrestrial ecosystem on the planet and their abunda[r] ...
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