Impacts of CO2 concentration and climate change on the terrestrial carbon flux using six global climate–carbon coupled models

2015 ◽  
Vol 304 ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Peng ◽  
Li Dan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Flux ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Terrestrial Carbon ◽  
Coupled Models

scholarly journals Influence of Environmental Factors Light, CO2, Temperature, and Relative Humidity on Stomatal Opening and Development: A Review

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1975
Author(s):  
Elisa Driesen ◽  
Wim Van den Ende ◽  
Maurice De Proft ◽  
Wouter Saeys
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Stomatal Development ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
The Impact

Stomata, the microscopic pores surrounded by a pair of guard cells on the surfaces of leaves and stems, play an essential role in regulating the gas exchange between a plant and the surrounding atmosphere. Stomatal development and opening are significantly influenced by environmental conditions, both in the short and long term. The rapid rate of current climate change has been affecting stomatal responses, as a new balance between photosynthesis and water-use efficiency has to be found. Understanding the mechanisms involved in stomatal regulation and adjustment provides us with new insights into the ability of stomata to process information and evolve over time. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in research on the underlying mechanisms of the interaction between environmental factors and stomatal development and opening. Specific emphasis is placed on the environmental factors including light, CO2 concentration, ambient temperature, and relative humidity, as these factors play a significant role in understanding the impact of global climate change on plant development.

An Overview of the Materials and Methodologies for CO2 Capture under Humid Conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Chirambatte Peter ◽  
Bitan Ray ◽  
Sathyapal R Churipard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Co2 Concentration

CO2 capture is one of the cardinal technologies to combat the ever-escalating CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and to address global climate change. Among the several strategies employed, adsorption on...

scholarly journals The influence of vegetation dynamics on anthropogenic climate change

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Port ◽  
V. Brovkin ◽  
M. Claussen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Atmospheric Co2 ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Atmospheric Co2 Concentration ◽  
Global Mean

Abstract. In this study, vegetation–climate and vegetation–carbon cycle interactions during anthropogenic climate change are assessed by using the Earth System Model of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI ESM) that includes vegetation dynamics and an interactive carbon cycle. We assume anthropogenic CO2 emissions according to the RCP 8.5 scenario in the time period from 1850 to 2120. For the time after 2120, we assume zero emissions to evaluate the response of the stabilising Earth System by 2300. Our results suggest that vegetation dynamics have a considerable influence on the changing global and regional climate. In the simulations, global mean tree cover extends by 2300 due to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration and global warming. Thus, land carbon uptake is higher and atmospheric CO2 concentration is lower by about 40 ppm when considering dynamic vegetation compared to the static pre-industrial vegetation cover. The reduced atmospheric CO2 concentration is equivalent to a lower global mean temperature. Moreover, biogeophysical effects of vegetation cover shifts influence the climate on a regional scale. Expanded tree cover in the northern high latitudes results in a reduced albedo and additional warming. In the Amazon region, declined tree cover causes a regional warming due to reduced evapotranspiration. As a net effect, vegetation dynamics have a slight attenuating effect on global climate change as the global climate cools by 0.22 K due to natural vegetation cover shifts in 2300.

The Impacts of Climate Change on Autumn North Atlantic Midlatitude Cyclones

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 1174-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Jiang ◽  
William Perrie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Northwest Atlantic ◽  
High Co2 ◽  
The North ◽  
Atlantic Hurricanes

Abstract This study explores how midlatitude extratropical cyclone intensities, frequencies, and tracks can be modified under warming-induced conditions due to enhanced greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations. Simulations were performed with the Canadian mesoscale compressible community (MC2) model driven by control and high CO2 climate estimates from the Canadian Climate Centre model, the Second Generation Coupled Global Climate Model (CGCM2). CGCM2 simulations have effective CO2 concentration forcing, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) IS92a scenario conditions, which define a near doubling of CO2 concentrations by 2050 compared to the 1980s. The control and high CO2 conditions were obtained from years 1975–94 and 2040–59 of CGCM2 simulations. For the northwest Atlantic, the CO2-induced warming for this period (2040–59) varies from ∼1°–2°C in the subtropics, near the main development region for Atlantic hurricanes, to ∼1°C in the north. In simulations of northwest Atlantic storms, the net impact of this enhanced CO2 scenario is to cause storms to increase in radius, with marginal tendencies to become more severe and to propagate faster (although not statistically significant), and for the mean storm tracks to shift slightly poleward.

scholarly journals Durability and Mechanical Characteristics of Blast-Furnace Slag Based Activated Carbon-Capturing Concrete with Respect to Cement Content

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 2083
Author(s):  
Seungwon Kim ◽  
Cheolwoo Park
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Blast Furnace ◽  
Blast Furnace Slag ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Furnace Slag

The recent abnormal temperature phenomena such as the rise of global mean temperature and sea level due to global climate change are clear threats that can no longer be overlooked to the human beings who have pursued indiscriminate development and rapid growth. Climate change has emerged as a serious risk that threatens the survival of the entire human race from the environmental and ecological aspects, despite international efforts for several decades. The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased by approximately 39% since the industrial revolution. Even if carbon emissions are stopped right now, it is expected to take at least 50–200 years to return to the CO2 level before the industrial revolution. Therefore, we conducted an experimental study to develop a carbon-capturing concrete that has active as well as passive carbon reduction functions using blast-furnace slag, an industrial byproduct, instead of cement. For active carbon reduction, we used calcium hydroxide and sodium silicate as carbon capture activators, and conducted tests on mechanical properties and durability characteristics.

scholarly journals Earth system model simulations show different carbon cycle feedback strengths under glacial and interglacial conditions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Adloff ◽  
Christian H. Reick ◽  
Martin Claussen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
System Model ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Concentration Increase ◽  
Terrestrial Carbon ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Fertilization Effect ◽  
Simulation Time

Abstract. In Earth system model simulations we find different carbon cycle sensitivities for recent and glacial climate. This result is obtained by comparing the transient response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to a fast and strong atmospheric CO2 concentration increase (roughly 1000ppm) in C4MIP type simulations starting from climate conditions of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and from Pre-Industrial times (PI). The sensitivity β to CO2 fertilization is larger in the LGM experiment during most of the simulation time: The fertilization effect leads to a terrestrial carbon gain in the LGM experiment almost twice as large as in the PI experiment. The larger fertilization effect in the LGM experiment is caused by the stronger initial CO2 limitation of photosynthesis, implying a stronger potential for its release upon CO2 concentration increase. In contrast, the sensitivity γ to climate change induced by the radiation effect of rising CO2 is larger in the PI experiment for most of the simulation time. Yet, climate change is less pronounced in the PI experiment, resulting in only slightly higher terrestrial carbon losses than in the LGM experiment. The stronger climate sensitivity in the PI experiment results from the vastly more extratropical soil carbon under those interglacial conditions whose respiration is enhanced under climate change. Comparing the radiation and fertilization effect in a factor analysis, we find that they are almost additive, i.e. their synergy is small in the global sum of carbon changes. From this additivity, we find that the carbon cycle feedback strength is more negative in the LGM than in the PI simulations.

scholarly journals The African contribution to the global climate-carbon cycle feedback of the 21st century

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 4847-4866 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Friedlingstein ◽  
P. Cadule ◽  
S. L. Piao ◽  
P. Ciais ◽  
S. Sitch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Amazon Forest ◽  
Terrestrial Carbon ◽  
Carbon Cycle Model

Abstract. Future climate change will have impact on global and regional terrestrial carbon balances. The fate of African tropical forests over the 21st century has been investigated through global coupled climate carbon cycle model simulations. Under the SRES-A2 socio-economic CO2 emission scenario of the IPCC, and using the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace coupled ocean-terrestrial carbon cycle and climate model, IPSL-CM4-LOOP, we found that the warming over African ecosystems induces a reduction of net ecosystem productivity, making a 20% contribution to the global climate-carbon cycle positive feedback. However, the African rainforest ecosystem alone makes only a negligible contribution to the overall feedback, much smaller than the one arising from the Amazon forest. This is first because of the two times smaller area of forest in Africa, but also because of the relatively lower local land carbon cycle sensitivity to climate change. This beneficial role of African forests in mitigating future climate change should be taken into account when designing forest conservation policy.

Conservation assessments in climate change scenarios: spatial perspectives for present and future in two Pristidactylus (Squamata: Leiosauridae) lizards from Argentina

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4237 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
IGNACIO MINOLI ◽  
LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Habitat Use ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Lizard Species ◽  
Restricted Use

The consequences of global climate change can already be seen in many physical and biological systems and these effects could change the distribution of suitable areas for a wide variety of organisms to the middle of this century. We analyzed the current habitat use and we projected the suitable area of present conditions into the geographical space of future scenarios (2050), to assess and quantify whether future climate change would affect the distribution and size of suitable environments in two Pristidactylus lizard species. Comparing the habitat use and future forecasts of the two studied species, P. achalensis showed a more restricted use of available resource units (RUs) and a moderate reduction of the potential future area. On the contrary, P. nigroiugulus uses more available RUs and has a considerable area decrease for both future scenarios. These results suggest that both species have a moderately different trend towards reducing available area of suitable habitats, the persistent localities for both 2050 CO2 concentration models, and in the available RUs used. We discussed the relation between size and use of the current habitat, changes in future projections along with the protected areas from present-future and the usefulness of these results in conservation plans. This work illustrates how ectothermic organisms might have to face major changes in their availability suitable areas as a consequence of the effect of future climate change.  

scholarly journals The influence of vegetation dynamics on anthropogenic climate change

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Port ◽  
V. Brovkin ◽  
M. Claussen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Atmospheric Co2 ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Atmospheric Co2 Concentration ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Mean

Abstract. In this study, vegetation-climate and vegetation-carbon cycle interactions during anthropogenic climate change are assessed by using the Earth System Model MPI ESM including a module for vegetation dynamics. We assume anthropogenic CO2 emissions according to the RCP 8.5 scenario in the period from 1850 to 2120 and shut them down afterwards to evaluate the equilibrium response of the Earth System by 2300. Our results suggest that vegetation dynamics have a considerable influence on the changing global and regional climate. In the simulations, global mean tree cover extends by 2300 due to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration and global warming. Thus, land carbon uptake is higher and atmospheric CO2 concentration is lower by about 40 ppm when considering dynamic vegetation compared to a static pre-industrial vegetation cover. The reduced atmospheric CO2 concentration is equivalent to a lower global mean temperature. Moreover, biogeophysical effects of vegetation cover shifts influence the climate on a regional scale. Expanded tree cover in the northern high latitudes results in a reduced albedo and additional warming. In the Amazon region, declined tree cover causes a higher temperature as evapotranspiration is reduced. In total, we find that vegetation dynamics have a slight attenuating effect on global climate change as the global climate cools by 0.22 K in 2300 due to natural vegetation cover shifts.

scholarly journals Downscaling the climate change for oceans around Australia

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 425-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Chamberlain ◽  
C. Sun ◽  
R. J. Matear ◽  
M. Feng ◽  
S. J. Phipps
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Global Climate Models ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Coupled Models

Abstract. At present, global climate models used to project changes in climate do not resolve mesoscale ocean features such as boundary currents and eddies. These missing features may be important to realistically project the marine impacts of climate change. Here we present a framework for dynamically downscaling coarse climate change projections utilising a global ocean model that resolves these features in the Australian region. The downscaling model used here is ocean-only. The ocean feedback on the air-sea fluxes is explored by restoring to surface temperature and salinity, as well as a calculated feedback to wind stress. These feedback approximations do not replace the need for fully coupled models, but they allow us to assess the sensitivity of the ocean in downscaled climate change simulations. Significant differences are found in sea surface temperature, salinity, stratification and transport between the downscaled projections and those of the climate model. While the magnitude of the climate change differences may vary with the feedback parameterisation used, the patterns of the climate change differences are consistent and develop rapidly indicating they are mostly independent of feedback that ocean differences may have on the air-sea fluxes. Until such a time when it is feasible to regularly run a global climate model with eddy resolution, our framework for ocean climate change downscaling provides an attractive way to explore how climate change may affect the mesoscale ocean environment.

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