Spatial–temporal variations of carbon storage of the global forest ecosystem under future climate change

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-624
Author(s):  
Junfang Zhao ◽  
Jianyong Ma ◽  
Meiting Hou ◽  
Sen Li
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change

Forests of the future: Climate change impacts and implications for carbon storage in the Pacific Northwest, USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 482 ◽  
pp. 118886
Author(s):  
Michael J. Case ◽  
Brittany G. Johnson ◽  
Kristina J. Bartowitz ◽  
Tara W. Hudiburg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Biogeochemical and Biophysical Responses of the Land Surface to a Sustained Thermohaline Circulation Weakening

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 4135-4142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. T. Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Thermohaline Circulation ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Climate Feedback ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Area Index

Abstract Biotic responses to climate change may constitute significant feedbacks to the climate system by altering biogeochemistry (e.g., carbon storage) or biophysics (i.e., albedo, evapotranspiration, and roughness length) at the land surface. Accurate projection of future climate change depends on proper accounting of these biological feedbacks. Similarly, projections of future climate change must include the potential for nonlinear responses such as thermohaline circulation (THC) weakening, which is increasingly evident in paleoclimate reconstructions and model experiments. This article uses offline simulations with the Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS) to determine long-term biophysical and biogeochemical responses to climate patterns generated by the third Hadley Centre Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere General Circulation Model (HadCM3) under forced THC weakening. Total land surface carbon storage decreases by 0.5% in response to THC weakening, suggesting that the biogeochemical response would not constitute a significant climate feedback under this climate change scenario. In contrast, large regional and local changes in leaf area index (LAI) suggest that biophysical responses may constitute significant feedbacks to at least local and regional climate. Indeed, the LAI responses do lead to changes in midday direct and diffuse beam albedo over large regions of the land surface. As a result, there are large local and regional changes in the land surface's capacity to absorb solar radiation. Changes in energy partitioning between sensible and latent heat fluxes also occur. However, the change in latent heat flux from the land surface is primarily attributable to changes in precipitation that occur under forced THC weakening and not a result of the subsequent changes in vegetation.

Responses of Irish Vegetation to Future Climate Change

2006 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Jones ◽  
Alison Donnelly ◽  
Fabrizio Albanito
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change

Future climate change and its impacts over small island states

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Lal ◽  
H Harasawa ◽  
K Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Island States ◽  
Small Island States
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