Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Regional and seasonal partitioning of water and temperature controls on global land carbon uptake variability

  • Kai Wang,
  • Ana Bastos,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Xuhui Wang,
  • Christian Rödenbeck,
  • Pierre Gentine,
  • Frédéric Chevallier,
  • Vincent W. Humphrey,
  • Chris Huntingford,
  • Michael O’Sullivan,
  • Sonia I. Seneviratne,
  • Stephen Sitch,
  • Shilong Piao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31175-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The dominant driver of variations in global land carbon sink remains unclear. Here the authors show that the seasonal compensation of temperature effects on land carbon sink in the Northern Hemisphere could induce a global water dominance.