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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2020

Siberian and temperate ecosystems shape Northern Hemisphere atmospheric CO2 seasonal amplification

Xin Lin
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Brendan M. Rogers
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Colm O. Sweeney
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Mikhail Yu Arshinov
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Edward J. Dlugokencky
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Toshinobu Machida
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Motoki Sasakawa
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Pieter P. Tans
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Gretchen Keppel-Aleks

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The amplitude of the atmospheric CO2 seasonal cycle has increased by 30 to 50% in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) since the 1960s, suggesting widespread ecological changes in the northern extratropics. However, substantial uncertainty remains in the continental and regional drivers of this prominent amplitude increase. Here we present a quantitative regional attribution of CO2 seasonal amplification over the past 4 decades, using a tagged atmospheric transport model prescribed with observationally constrained fluxes. We find that seasonal flux changes in Siberian and temperate ecosystems together shape the observed amplitude increases in the NH. At the surface of northern high latitudes, enhanced seasonal carbon exchange in Siberia is the dominant contributor (followed by temperate ecosystems). Arctic-boreal North America shows much smaller changes in flux seasonality and has only localized impacts. These continental contrasts, based on an atmospheric approach, corroborate heterogeneous vegetation greening and browning trends from field and remote-sensing observations, providing independent evidence for regionally divergent ecological responses and carbon dynamics to global change drivers. Over surface midlatitudes and throughout the midtroposphere, increased seasonal carbon exchange in temperate ecosystems is the dominant contributor to CO2 amplification, albeit with considerable contributions from Siberia. Representing the mechanisms that control the high-latitude asymmetry in flux amplification found in this study should be an important goal for mechanistic land surface models moving forward.
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hal-03032371 , version 1 (01-04-2021)

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Xin Lin, Brendan M. Rogers, Colm O. Sweeney, Frédéric Chevallier, Mikhail Yu Arshinov, et al.. Siberian and temperate ecosystems shape Northern Hemisphere atmospheric CO2 seasonal amplification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020, 117 (35), pp.21079-21087. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1914135117⟩. ⟨hal-03032371⟩
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