An important goal of this work is to develop new conceptual and observational approaches for understanding how the global carbon cycle is changing.
Examples of recent carbon cycle publications:
Randerson, J.T., K. Lindsay, E. Munoz, W. Fu, J.K. Moore, F.M. Hoffman, N.M. Mahowald, and S.C. Doney. 2015. Multicentury changes in ocean and land contributions to the climate-carbon feedback. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29: 744–759. doi: 10.1002/2014GB005079.
Keppel-Aleks, G., A.S. Wolf, M. Mu, S.C. Doney, D.C. Morton, P.S. Kasibhatla, and J.T. Randerson. 2014. Separating the influence of temperature, drought, and fire on interannual variability in atmospheric CO2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 28: 1295-1310.
Hoffman, F.M., J.T. Randerson, V.K. Arora, Q. Bao, P. Cadule, D. Ji, C.D. Jones, M. Kawamiya, S. Khatiwala, K. Lindsay, A. Obata, E. Shevliakova, K.D. Six, J.F. Tjiputra, E.M. Volodin, and T. Wu. 2014. Causes and implications of persistent atmospheric carbon dioxide biases in Earth system models. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. 119: 141-162. doi:10.1002/2013JG002381.
Todd-Brown, K.E.O., J.T. Randerson, F. Hopkins, V. Arora, T. Hajima, C. Jones, E. Shevliakova, J. Tjiputra, E.Volodin, T. Wu, Q. Zhang, and S. D. Allison. 2014. Changes in soil organic carbon storage predicted by Earth system models during the 21st century. Biogeosciences. 11: 2341–2356. doi:10.5194/bg-11-2341-2014.
Keppel-Aleks, G., J.T. Randerson, K. Lindsay, B. B. Stephens, J.K. Moore, S.C. Doney, P.E. Thornton, N.M. Mahowald, F.M. Hoffman, C. Sweeney, P.P. Tans, P.O. Wennberg, and S.C. Wofsy. 2013. Atmospheric carbon dioxide variability in the Community Earth System Model: Evaluation and transient dynamics during the 20th and 21st centuries. Journal of Climate. 26: 4447-4475. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00589.1.
Todd-Brown, K.E.O., J.T. Randerson, W.M. Post, F.M. Hoffman, C. Tarnocai, E.A.G. Schuur, and S.D. Allison. 2013. Causes of variation in soil carbon simulations from CMIP5 Earth system models and comparison with observations. Biogeosciences. 10: 1717–1736. doi:10.5194/bg-10-1717-2013.
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO2) is a mission within NASA’s Earth System Science Pathfinder Program.