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Chapter 19: Future of the North American Carbon Cycle
Pages 135-138

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... Critical carbon cycle vulnerabilities and key research needs are also identified. Finally, this chapter briefly describes the future methane cycle and the improvement of model projections.
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From page 136...
... Are the questions outlined in the prospectus addressed and communicated in a manner that is appropriate and accessible for the intended audience? The Introduction section provides insufficient information on why we need to project the future of the North American carbon cycle.
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From page 137...
... could focus on North America, in addition to the focus on the globe in general. It would also be better to use model ensembles to specifically examine the future responses of land carbon cycle to rising atmospheric CO2 over North America.
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... The current discussion of changing biology in the open ocean has minimal impact on carbon uptake. References such as Randerson et al.
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Key Terms

  • methane cycle
  • american carbon
  • model evaluation
  • key findings
  • model structure

  • improve terrestrial
  • global scale
  • detail provided
  • america specifically
  • paragraph focusing

  • biogeochemistry models
  • characterize model
  • model projections
  • insufficient information
  • key research

  • cycle changes
  • separates uncertainty
  • cover categories
  • provides insufficient
  • future methane

  • historical carbon
  • model parameterization
  • cycle vulnerabilities
  • ocean biogeochemistry
  • coastal ocean

  • land carbon
  • touching canada
  • introduction section
  • including canada
  • section lists


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