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Ecosystem climate sensitivities drive the divergence in aerosol-induced carbon uptake across CMIP6 models
Zhaoyang Zhang
College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang Province 321000, China
Meng Fan
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Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Minghui Tao
School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Yunhui Tan
School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China
Quan Wang
Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 4228529, Japan
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Short summary
In this paper, we examined the inter-model differences among five Earth System Models in simulating the impact of aerosols on plant productivity. All models showed that the impact of human-made aerosols on global plant productivity was negative, but with the divergence in the amount of reduction. We found that the divergence was mostly caused by the parameterization of model in simulating canopy photosynthesis, which determines how strongly plants react to changes in climatic factors.
In this paper, we examined the inter-model differences among five Earth System Models in...