Articles | Volume 9, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2357-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2357-2016
Methods for assessment of models
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07 Jul 2016
Methods for assessment of models |  | 07 Jul 2016

Constraining the strength of the terrestrial CO2 fertilization effect in the Canadian Earth system model version 4.2 (CanESM4.2)

Vivek K. Arora and John F. Scinocca

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This paper uses observed features of the global carbon cycle to constrain how much carbon the land should take up in an Earth system model in response to increasing fossil fuel CO2 emissions since the start of the industrial era. These models are the only tool available to us for projecting future climate change. Despite their uncertainties, if current observations can be used to constrain models then more confidence can be places in models' future climate change projections.