For the period of 1850–2015, the temporal magnitude and changes of ELUC derived from ORCHIDEE Certified Public Accountant baseline simulation are in broad agreement with the HN2017 study, but the ORCHIDEE ELUC shows much greater IAV. This suggests that human land use modifies the response of land ecosystems to climate variability and strongly modulates the IAV of Snet. We found that managed land contributes 30–45% of the IAV of Snet, in stark contrast to only 5% when ELUC was derived by bookkeeping models. For most of the historical period, land-use-change activities such asdeforestation for agriculture and wood harvesting were the primary sourcesof anthropogenic carbon emissions (Ciais et al., 2013). Over the lastdecade (2009–2018) the Global Carbon Budget 2019 (Friedlingstein et al.,2019) estimated the net annual CO2 flux from land use, ELUC, to be1.5±0.7 Gt C yr−1 (compared with fossil fuel emissions over thatsame time period of 9.5±0.5 Gt C yr−1). The LULCC uncertainty has a comparable impact on the cumulative net LULCC flux to including harvest and gross transitions, while its impact on most recent annual estimates is about 3 times smaller.
The bookkeeping and residual budget approach
The dataset captures the challenge of reconstructing the LULCC of the past.LUH2 is the land-use dataset that is – besides many other studies – also applied in CMIP6 (Eyring et al., 2016) for simulations with process-based DGVMs, like in LUMIP (Lawrence et al., 2016). Our findings and discussions regarding DGVM studies are therefore also informative for the interpretation of CMIP6 results. BLUE is a data-driven bookkeeping model (Hansis et al., 2015) used in the GCB for LULCC flux estimates (Friedlingstein et al., 2019). We choose a bookkeeping model in contrast to a DGVM because LULCC fluxes due to individual LULCC events can be traced and because bookkeeping model of the potential to isolate the net LULCC flux independent of climate variability, among other factors (Pongratz et al., 2014). Shifting cultivation mainly occurred in tropical regions (Supplementary Fig. 11), accounting for 2–4% of the total cropland area from 1500 to now.
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- As a consequence of enhanced land use by including shifting cultivation, the contribution of land use to the IAV of Snet further increased to 45%, when half of the covariance term was also included.
- Where Snet is the net land sink, EFUEL is the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production, SAIR is the atmospheric carbon sink in the form of CO2 growth for which reliable global measurements since 1959 are available, and SOCEAN is the ocean carbon sink.
A1 Preparation of LUH2 data for BLUE
The mass of dislocated carbon is then distributed among different slash andproduct pools (Alloc), with specific response curves with different decaytimes (t). The artificial sensitivity experiments IC and Trans behave differently mainly in Trans, where for the period 1850–2014 the sensitivity of the cumulative net LULCC flux decreases with later starting year (Fig. 3), while over the full Bookkeeping for Chiropractors respective time periods the sensitivity increases with later starting year (not shown). Neglecting harvest and its uncertainty results in considerably reduced sensitivity to total LULCC uncertainty for simulations started in 1700 and 1850 (not shown). Interestingly, the reduction in cumulative net LULCC flux is largest in HI850NoH if considering the whole simulation (not shown), but from 1850 (Fig. 3), LO850NoH and REG850NoH show the largest reduction by omitting wood harvest. The cumulative net LULCC flux in the LO scenario exceeds the values in the HI scenario in both setups, but the relative magnitude of the sensitivity (spread along the y axis for points with same x-axis base) of the cumulative net LULCC flux to LULCC and starting year of a simulation depends on the period considered. Especially for StYr, the range is larger, resulting in a larger sensitivity of StYr compared to the LULCC uncertainty.
Example of an Accounting Method
For SHNFull, the difference with SBL-NET is not expected to be simply the sum of the corresponding SHNCdens, SHNAlloc andSHNt differences because of interactions between C densities,allocation fractions and response times, with differences in model structureand LUC forcing, as described in Fig. Differences in initial land-cover distribution and transitions across different forcing datasets can also lead to substantial differences inestimated FLUC (Di Vittorio et al., 2020; Li et al., 2018; Gasser et al., 2020). Figure A3Global areas of the four BLUE land-cover types based on the LUH2 dataset in four future scenarios described in the text. Remaining sensitivities to LULCC uncertainties in future scenarios are due to harvest (Fig. S3) and decrease towards the end of the 21st century but do not reach zero in 2099. These uncertainties in harvest also explain why the remaining spread of net LULCC flux is larger in HI than LO, similar to the historical period. The extensions of the 12 scenario simulations as a continuation of the three historical simulations with starting year 1700 are shown in Fig.
- This uncertainty range reflects uncertainties in parameterisations of the BK models, in the applied land-use change forcings as well as definitions, processes considered, and is large enough to encompass the two models’ estimates.
- To estimate changes in C stocks, the models rely onvalues of C density in above- and below-ground pools which are plant functional type (PFT) specificand based on measurements (Table A2).
- These neglected transitions on primary land can induce omissions of follow-on LULCC activities if the required land-use type is not available since transitions are only executed in BLUE if the “from” type is present.
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- This roughly corresponded to a forest age of 70, 90, and 160 years for tropical, temperate, and boreal forests, respectively.
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Feature (2) develops because the timescale of regrowth (sink of carbon flux, i.e. flux from atmosphere to land) is longer than that of clearing/harvest (source). The feature can be seen by comparing the orange and green crosses, representing the cumulative net LULCC flux for the period 1850–2014 in REG850 and REG1700 respectively, with the blue cross for REG1850 in Fig. Figure 2Global cumulative net LULCC flux since the start of the individual simulations. The flux in the land-use scenario HI, REG and LO (compare lines with same colour) and the relevance of starting date (compare same line style across colours) are shown. The three crosses in 2014 represent the total cumulative net LULCC flux of the three REG experiments (REG850, REG1700 and REG1850) if the flux is only calculated for the period 1850–2014.