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Xing Zhang
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Tianjun Zhou

maintained until the subsequent spring and summer ( Lin and Qian 2019 ). As an important carbon sink, terrestrial ecosystems removed more CO 2 (∼29%) than oceans (∼26%) from 2012 to 2021 ( Friedlingstein et al. 2022 ), and terrestrial ecosystems mainly modulate the interannual fluctuations of the atmospheric CO 2 growth rate ( Kindermann et al. 1996 ; Bousquet et al. 2000 ; Piao et al. 2020 ; B. He et al. 2021 ). ENSO can also regulate the interannual variability in the global carbon cycle ( Liu

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Pierre Friedlingstein
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Malte Meinshausen
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Vivek K. Arora
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Chris D. Jones
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Alessandro Anav
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Spencer K. Liddicoat
, and
Reto Knutti

-estimate projections and uncertainty ranges for emission scenarios, there are two major sources of uncertainty that need to be taken into account. The first relates to physical processes and feedbacks, and the uncertainty they induce on climate response for a given greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration and aerosol forcing in terms of the global-mean temperature response, and regional climate change; while the second relates to carbon cycle processes and feedbacks, with the associated uncertainty on the relationship

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Jörg Schwinger
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Jerry F. Tjiputra
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Christoph Heinze
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Laurent Bopp
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James R. Christian
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Marion Gehlen
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Tatiana Ilyina
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Chris D. Jones
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David Salas-Mélia
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Joachim Segschneider
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Roland Séférian
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Ian Totterdell

. 2009 ). The first attempts to quantify these feedbacks were made decades ago (e.g., Eriksson 1963 ; Siegenthaler and Oeschger 1978 ), and the first three-dimensional atmosphere–ocean modeling experiments including both the carbon–concentration and the carbon–climate feedback were devised by Maier-Reimer et al. (1996) , Sarmiento and Le Quéré (1996) , and Matear and Hirst (1999) . With the advent of earth system models with fully coupled land and ocean carbon cycle modules, it became possible

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Keith Lindsay
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Gordon B. Bonan
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Scott C. Doney
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Forrest M. Hoffman
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David M. Lawrence
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Matthew C. Long
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Natalie M. Mahowald
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J. Keith Moore
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James T. Randerson
, and
Peter E. Thornton

does not have a uniformly accepted definition, models that couple a prognostic carbon cycle model to a climate model are generally agreed to qualify as Earth system models. These models can predict atmospheric CO 2 , allowing for internally consistent feedbacks between the varying model climate and atmospheric CO 2 . This is in contrast to traditional climate models that use prescribed atmospheric CO 2 trajectories that are produced by an independent, and typically reduced-complexity, model. Usage

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Tilla Roy
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Jean Baptiste Sallée
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Laurent Bopp
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Nicolas Metzl

1. Introduction Anthropogenic CO 2 emissions ( C E ) induce feedbacks between the global carbon cycle and the climate system (hereafter carbon cycle feedbacks) by perturbing the efficiency of atmospheric CO 2 uptake and storage by the ocean (Δ C O ; Sarmiento et al. 1998 ) and land (Δ C L ; Cao and Woodward 1998 ) reservoirs and causing the atmospheric carbon reservoir (Δ C A ) to rise faster or slower than expected from anthropogenic CO 2 emissions alone ( Sarmiento et al. 1995 ; Cox et

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Pu Shao
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Xubin Zeng
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Koichi Sakaguchi
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Russell K. Monson
, and
Xiaodong Zeng

1. Introduction The global carbon cycle consists of the combined interactions among a series of carbon reservoirs in the earth system (such as CO 2 in the atmosphere, soil organic carbon and vegetation, and carbonate and phytoplankton in the ocean) and all the fluxes and feedbacks that regulate dynamics in the sizes of these reservoirs. Most of the sensitivity and uncertainty in coupled carbon–climate projections lie in the terrestrial (rather than oceanic) carbon cycle (e.g., Zeng et al

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Alan J. Hewitt
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Ben B. B. Booth
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Chris D. Jones
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Eddy S. Robertson
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Andy J. Wiltshire
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Philip G. Sansom
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David B. Stephenson
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Stan Yip

1. Introduction The global carbon cycle is a crucial component of future climate change, closely linking anthropogenic CO 2 emissions with future changes in atmospheric CO 2 concentration and hence climate ( Denman et al. 2007 ; Ciais et al. 2013 ). Inclusion of the carbon cycle as an interactive component in comprehensive Earth system models (ESMs) has grown since early coupled studies ( Cox et al. 2000 ) and intercomparisons such as the Coupled Carbon Cycle–Climate Model Intercomparison

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Atsushi Obata
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Kiyotaka Shibata

and climate. The methane-induced changes in the Earth system can qualitatively be understood as described above but have not yet been quantified. For the study of changes in the Earth system, a numerical model that simulates the coupling of atmosphere–ocean general circulation, atmospheric chemistry, and the carbon cycle is useful because of the consistent interaction between geophysical and biogeochemical processes. With regard to a massive methane release event, although atmosphere–ocean models

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J. S. Kimball
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M. Zhao
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A. D. McGuire
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F. A. Heinsch
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J. Clein
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M. Calef
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W. M. Jolly
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S. Kang
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S. E. Euskirchen
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K. C. McDonald
, and
S. W. Running

patterns and trends from the remote sensing record in the context of more comprehensive simulations of the terrestrial carbon cycle. The Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE) was initiated to investigate the role of northern terrestrial ecosystems in the larger Arctic system response to global change through model and satellite remote sensing analyses of regional carbon, water, and energy cycles (McGuire et al., see WALE Special Theme). The objectives of the current investigation are to assess

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Binayak P. Mohanty
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Deanroy Mbabazi
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Gretchen Miller
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Georgianne Moore
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Mark Everett
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Nithya Rajan
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Cristine L. S. Morgan
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Nandita Gaur
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Vinit Sehgal
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Amir Sedaghatdoost
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Minki Hong
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Dhruva Kathuria
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Ajinkya Deshpande
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Siddharth Singh
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J. Michael Martin
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Salvatore Calabrese
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Debasish Mishra
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Rishabh Singh
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Beomseok Chun
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Rodolfo Souza
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Peter S. K. Knappett
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Douglas R. Smith
, and
Curtis Jones

such as climate/weather, soil moisture, soil temperature, matric potential, evapotranspiration, respiration, subsurface hydrogeophysics, groundwater, streamflow, ecosystem indicators, water quality, and water use/availability to understand the linked (blue and green) water, carbon, and energy cycle and provide various scenarios as tools for decision-makers. TWO was designed and implemented following continental observatory network protocols. Each primary site consists of one eddy covariance system

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