Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks Nature Climate Change

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HYDE-GCB2019 was based upon HYDE 3.2 (as were HYDE-GCB2017 to HYDE-GCB2018), although
using a slightly different variant of HYDE 3.2 from that used in LUH2 v2h. In addition, the HYDE-GCB2019 dataset was extrapolated to
2019 using a 5-year trend in gridded land-use areas (2014–2018). Where a positive sign of ELUC indicates net release of carbon to the atmosphere. ELUC occurs because relatively carbon-poor managed ecosystems replace carbon-rich intact ecosystems, and release their stored carbon into the atmosphere. SIntact indicates carbon sink over land with no appreciable human modification and whose carbon sink can be mainly ascribed to global environmental changes, including atmospheric CO2 growth, climate change, and nitrogen deposition. The DGVMs and the remote-sensing studies account for spatial variability in carbon density, which is lacking in FAO-FRA and derivative emission estimates.

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Neglecting wood harvest (NoH) or only using net transitions (net) leads to 3 times larger deviations from the reference (see Table 2) than LULCC uncertainties (first column) and reduces the net LULCC flux at most to about 1.1 PgC yr−1. The 5 %–10 % sensitivity of the net LULCC flux to LULCC uncertainties (about 1.55 to 1.75 PgC yr−1) can mainly be explained by the uncertainty of transitions. Almost no sensitivity of the net LULCC flux to the starting year of the model simulations remains.

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Bookkeeping estimates of the net land-use change flux – a sensitivity study with the CMIP6 land-use dataset

Components of the cumulative net LULCC flux due to uncertainty of crop expansion and abandonment follow the pattern of shifting cultivation in the tropics, which means that the sensitivity to uncertainties in abandonment and crops is balanced with the opposite sign. The largest sensitivity of the cumulative net land-use flux to LULCC using net transitions is present over Europe from abandonment and over India and south-east Asia from uncertainties in crop transitions. The sensitivity of the net LULCC flux to uncertainties of pasture and overall uncertainty of LULCC over Oceania is relatively small. Interestingly, the cumulative net land-use change flux over Oceania is larger in HI1700 rather than LO1700 because few transitions occur before 1700, so basically all transitions are captured in the analysis period. By neglecting information on some of the LULCC activities from the input dataset, simulations without wood harvest and with net instead of gross transitions can be produced (see Table 2).

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Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009

The impact of StYr and LULCC uncertainty on the net LULCC flux in 2014 is similar to the characteristics discussed for the cumulative net LULCC flux estimates (Fig. 3). LULCC differences still modulate annual net LULCC flux estimates throughout the 20th century (Fig. S2), and the largest variability of net LULCC flux, about ±0.1 to 0.3 PgC yr−1, is due to uncertainties in harvest and abandonment. In 2014, the largest impact of the remaining differences is due to harvest (about ±0.05–0.1 PgC yr−1).

• If the carbon uptake by land and ocean sinks becomes less efficient, for example, owing to warming oceans2 or thawing permafrost3, a larger fraction of anthropogenic emissions will remain in the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
• The uncertainty in agricultural area is estimated in the HYDE dataset and linked to population uncertainty.
• Articles written by Dr. Boyle and doctoral students at Scranton and fellow professors have received numerous awards, including most recently a 2023 Institute of Management Accountants’ (IMA) Lybrand Silver Medal and Certificate of Merit.
• This dataset used LUH2-GCB2019 cropland,
  grazing land, and urban land grid-cell fractions for years up to and
  including 2019 and extrapolated those land-use states to 2020 using a
  5-year trend from HYDE.
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Being roughly consistent with such empirical findings, ORCHIDEE also indicated higher IAV in Srecov than Sintact of intact forest mainly in the southern hemisphere (Supplementary Fig. 9). 9 suggests that fluxes over managed land (Elegacy and Srecov) have higher IAV than those over intact forest or grassland, demonstrating the contribution of land use to the IAV of Snet. As forcing bookkeeping model data for these processes were shared between ORCHIDEE and HN2017, it is reasonable that both Efire estimates showed similar temporal patterns (Fig. 4). In reality, the dynamics of deforestation in the tropics are driven by both complex social and economic factors, as well as suitable climate conditions that allow effective removal of aboveground forest biomass11,27.