Seminar: "Modeling the terrestrial carbon cycle during the Last Glacial Maximum" by Dan Zhu
Event details
- Start: 28 Jun 2018
- End: 28 Jun 2018
Seminar
Title: "Modeling the terrestrial carbon cycle during the Last Glacial Maximum"
Speaker: Dan Zhu, from IPSL
Date: Thursday June 28
Time: 11am
Venue: Room Z/033 ICTA-UAB
During the repeated glacial-interglacial transitions, there has been a consistent and partly abrupt increase of nearly 100 ppm in atmospheric CO2, indicating major redistributions among the carbon reservoirs of land, ocean and atmosphere. A comprehensive explanation of the carbon fluxes associated with the transitions is still missing, requiring a better understanding of the potential carbon stock in terrestrial biosphere during the glacial period. This talk presents a series of model development, evaluation and application of the ORCHIDEE land surface model, including vegetation dynamics, permafrost soil organic carbon accumulation, and interactions between large herbivores and vegetation, in order to improve our understanding of terrestrial carbon cycle for present-day and the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, about 21,000 years ago).
Research supported by BIGSEA. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 682602)
