Open AccessFuture Research Directions for Soil Carbon Modeling
Author(s) -
ToddBrown K.,
Luo Y.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo410005
Subject(s) - soil carbon , carbon cycle , climate change , environmental science , earth system science , carbon fibers , global change , component (thermodynamics) , environmental resource management , natural resource economics , soil science , computer science , soil water , ecology , economics , geology , ecosystem , oceanography , physics , algorithm , biology , composite number , thermodynamics
Soil carbon is a recent but critical sub‐component of Earth system models that contributes significant uncertainty to carbon cycle simulations in the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment. Understanding and reducing this uncertainty is a high priority for the next round of IPCC assessments. To this end, experts in soil carbon dynamics gathered in Breckenridge, Colo., for 3 days to discuss next steps for global soil carbon modeling.