REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes: Results and Data Legacy (Invited)
Abstract
The Global Carbon Project with the involvement of over 150 contributing scientists has finalized the largest and most comprehensive assessment of regional carbon budgets, land and oceans, ever undertaken: the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes (RECCAP; http:// www.globalcarbonproject.org/reccap). The objective of RECCAP was to establish the mean carbon balance of 10 land regions (Africa, the Arctic tundra, Australia, Europe, Russia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and North America) and 4 major ocean basins (Atlantic and Arctic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern oceans) for the period 1990-2009. The fundamental tenet of RECCAP was to establish carbon budgets in each region by comparing and reconciling multiple bottom-up flux estimates with top-down estimates. Bottom-up flux approaches include estimates from ensembles of process-based land and ocean models, surface partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2), forest inventories, eddy covariance measurements, fire modeling, riverine export, and wood harvest among others, while top-down estimates relied on model ensembles of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 inversions. In this talk we'll present an overview of results of the various regions, compare with the independently developed global carbon budget, and emphasize major regional differences and data gaps. An important legacy of RECCAP are a number of updated and new databases including an ensemble of 9 Global Dynamic Vegetation Models (TRENDY), 4 Ocean biogeochemical models, and 10 atmospheric CO2 inversions for the period 1990-2009.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013AGUFM.B13M..04C
- Keywords:
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- 0428 BIOGEOSCIENCES Carbon cycling