Carbon-biosphere-climate interactions in the last glacial maximum climate

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Discipline
Earth and related Environmental sciences
Subject
carbon inventory
carbon-biosphere-climate interaction
carbon/biosphere/climate interaction
climate change
last glacial maximum
Last Glacial Maximum
palaeoclimate
vegetation distribution
Audience
Scientific
Date
1995Metadata
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The total carbon inventory in the terrestrial biosphere in the last glacial maximum (LGC), 18 kyr ago, is analyzed in a series of experiments that examine the sensitivity of the inventory to vegetation distribution and carbon dynamics. The results show that for most forest vegetation types, carbon densities for the LGM are within 10% of their present-day values. Discrepancies between vegetation distributions simulated by two bioclimatic schemes are attributable to the assignation of vegetation types to climates with rare or no present-day analog. The model experiments, combined with palynological data for regions with no present-day analog climate, yield to a decrease of about 612 Gt C compared to present day.
Citation
Friedlingstein, P.; Prentice, K.C.; Fung, I.Y.; John, J.G.; Brasseur, G.P. (1995). Carbon-biosphere-climate interactions in the last glacial maximum climate. , Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 100, Issue D4, 7203-7221, DOI: 10.1029/94JD02948.Identifiers
scopus: 2-s2.0-0028806918
Type
Article
Peer-Review
Yes
Language
eng