Articles | Volume 10, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3481-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3481-2017
Development and technical paper
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22 Sep 2017
Development and technical paper |  | 22 Sep 2017

An improved land biosphere module for use in the DCESS Earth system model (version 1.1) with application to the last glacial termination

Roland Eichinger, Gary Shaffer, Nelson Albarrán, Maisa Rojas, and Fabrice Lambert

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Short summary
We reformulate the land biosphere of the reduced-complexity DCESS model by introducing three vegetation types and relating their latitudinal borders to global temperature change. This enhancement yields more realistic estimates of biosphere carbon cycling for cold conditions like the Last Glacial Maximum. As a first application we conduct transient simulations across the last glacial termination to estimate the importance of different processes on temperature, pCO2 and carbon isotope ratios.