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Top–down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s

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  • R. L. Thompson

    (Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning (NILU))

  • P. K. Patra

    (Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))

  • F. Chevallier

    (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement (LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ))

  • S. Maksyutov

    (National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES))

  • R. M. Law

    (Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO))

  • T. Ziehn

    (Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO))

  • I. T. van der Laan-Luijkx

    (Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University (WU))

  • W. Peters

    (Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University (WU)
    University of Groningen, Centre for Isotope Research)

  • A. Ganshin

    (Central Aerological Observatory (CAO)
    National Research Tomsk State University (TSU))

  • R. Zhuravlev

    (Central Aerological Observatory (CAO)
    National Research Tomsk State University (TSU)
    Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • T. Maki

    (Meteorological Research Institute (MRI))

  • T. Nakamura

    (Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA))

  • T. Shirai

    (National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES))

  • M. Ishizawa

    (National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES))

  • T. Saeki

    (Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))

  • T. Machida

    (National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES))

  • B. Poulter

    (Montana State University (MSU))

  • J. G. Canadell

    (Global Carbon Project, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO))

  • P. Ciais

    (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement (LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ))

Abstract

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is the principal driver of anthropogenic climate change. Asia is an important region for the global carbon budget, with 4 of the world’s 10 largest national emitters of CO2. Using an ensemble of seven atmospheric inverse systems, we estimated land biosphere fluxes (natural, land-use change and fires) based on atmospheric observations of CO2 concentration. The Asian land biosphere was a net sink of −0.46 (−0.70–0.24) PgC per year (median and range) for 1996–2012 and was mostly located in East Asia, while in South and Southeast Asia the land biosphere was close to carbon neutral. In East Asia, the annual CO2 sink increased between 1996–2001 and 2008–2012 by 0.56 (0.30–0.81) PgC, accounting for ∼35% of the increase in the global land biosphere sink. Uncertainty in the fossil fuel emissions contributes significantly (32%) to the uncertainty in land biosphere sink change.

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  • R. L. Thompson & P. K. Patra & F. Chevallier & S. Maksyutov & R. M. Law & T. Ziehn & I. T. van der Laan-Luijkx & W. Peters & A. Ganshin & R. Zhuravlev & T. Maki & T. Nakamura & T. Shirai & M. Ishizawa, 2016. "Top–down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-10, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms10724
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10724
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