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Terrestrial carbon storage during the past 200 years: A Monte Carlo Analysis of CO2 data from ice core and atmospheric measurements

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dc.contributor.authorBruno, Michele
dc.contributor.authorJoos, Fortunat
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-02T17:50:13Z
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dc.date.issued1997
dc.description.abstractWe have updated earlier deconvolution analyses using most recent high-precision ice core data for the last millennium [Etheridge et al., 1996] and direct atmospheric CO2 observations starting in 1958 [Keeling and Whorf, 1994]. We interpreted nonfossil emissions, that is, the difference between the increase in observed atmospheric plus modeled oceanic carbon inventory and fossil emissions, as biospheric carbon storage (release). We have assessed uncertainties in the CO2 ice core data using a Monte Carlo approach and found a 2-σ uncertainty for the nonfossil emissions (20-year averages) of 0.2–0.4 GtC yr−1. Overall uncertainties of the nonfossil emissions were estimated to be 0.5 GtC yr−1 before 1950 and ˜1 GtC yr−1 during the last decade. We found a large and rapid change of −0.8 GtC yr−1 in the nonfossil emissions (approximate net air-biota flux) between 1933 and 1943. Before 1933, the land biota acted as carbon source of order 0.5 GtC yr−1 in agreement with independent estimates of carbon emissions by land use changes [Houghton, 1993a]. After 1943, the land biota was a net sink of about 0.3 GtC yr−1. This implies an average biospheric sink of 1.5 GtC yr−1 during the last 5 decades to compensate estimated carbon emissions by land use changes. We could not attribute this sink to a single mechanism. We found that the temporal evolution of the required biota sink is not compatible with conventional modeling of CO2 fertilization. We estimated potential terrestrial carbon storage due to nitrogen fertilization to be 1 GtC yr−1 for 1960, that is, smaller than the required sink, and 1.5–3 GtC yr−1 for 1990. To assess the potential impact of climate variations, we deconvolved the preindustrial CO2 concentrations which fluctuated around 280 ppm. We found a maximum nonfossil sink of 30 GtC within 50 years. Thus it seems not likely that the cumulative sink of 76 GtC which is required to balance land use emissions during 1935 to 1990 can be explained by climate variations only.
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dc.description.sponsorshipPhysikalisches Institut, Klima- und Umweltphysik (KUP)
dc.identifier.doi10.48350/158805
dc.identifier.publisherDOI10.1029/96GB03611
dc.identifier.urihttps://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/43408
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Union
dc.relation.ispartofGlobal biogeochemical cycles
dc.relation.issn0886-6236
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dc.subject.ddc500 - Science::530 - Physics
dc.titleTerrestrial carbon storage during the past 200 years: A Monte Carlo Analysis of CO2 data from ice core and atmospheric measurements
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