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Li, Wei, Ciais, Philippe, Wang, Yilong, Peng, Shushi, Broquet, Grégoire, Ballantyne, Ashley P., Canadell, Josep G., Cooper, Leila, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Le Quéré, Corinne 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-0452, Myneni, Ranga B., Peters, Glen P., Piao, Shilong and Pongratz, Julia
(2016)
Reducing uncertainties in decadal variability of the global carbon budget with multiple datasets.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 113 (46).
pp. 13104-13108.
ISSN 0027-8424
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Abstract
Conventional calculations of the global carbon budget infer the land sink as a residual between emissions, atmospheric accumulation, and the ocean sink. Thus, the land sink accumulates the errors from the other flux terms and bears the largest uncertainty. Here, we present a Bayesian fusion approach that combines multiple observations in different carbon reservoirs to optimize the land (B) and ocean (O) carbon sinks, land use change emissions (L), and indirectly fossil fuel emissions (F) from 1980 to 2014. Compared with the conventional approach, Bayesian optimization decreases the uncertainties in B by 41% and in O by 46%. The L uncertainty decreases by 47%, whereas F uncertainty is marginally improved through the knowledge of natural fluxes. Both ocean and net land uptake (B + L) rates have positive trends of 29 ± 8 and 37 ± 17 Tg C⋅y−2 since 1980, respectively. Our Bayesian fusion of multiple observations reduces uncertainties, thereby allowing us to isolate important variability in global carbon cycle processes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | global carbon budget,carbon cycle,decadal variations,bayesian fusion,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land |
| Faculty \ School: | University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2016 00:06 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2023 01:05 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61670 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1603956113 |
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