The sensitivity of carbon turnover in the Community Land Model to modified assumptions about soil processes

Soil organic matter (SOM) is the largest store of organic carbon (C) in the biosphere, but the turnover of SOM is still incompletely understood and not well described in global C cycle models. Here we use the Community Land Model (CLM) and compare the output for soil organic C stocks (SOC) to estima...

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Main Authors: B. Foereid, D. S. Ward, N. Mahowald, E. Paterson, J. Lehmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-06-01
Series:Earth System Dynamics
Online Access:http://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/5/211/2014/esd-5-211-2014.pdf