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Carbon Budget
Other Recent Analyses

This is a selection of papers published in the last 12 months which may be of interest to the broader research community. It is a list in the making; if you want to suggest a paper, please send an email to info@globalcarbonproject.org with the complete reference.

Allen MR, Frame DJ, Huntingford C, et al. (2009) Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne. Nature 458: 1163-1166.

Archer D, Eby M, Brovkin V et al. (2009) Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 37: 117–34.

Canadell JG, Raupach MR, Houghton RA (2009) Anthropogenic CO₂ emissions in Africa. Biogeosciences 6: 463-468.

Cadule P, Bopp L, Friedlingstein P (2009) A revised estimate of the processes contributing to global warming due to climate-carbon feedback. Geophysical Research Letters 36:  L14705, doi:10.1029/2009GL038681.

Doney S, Tilbrook B, Roy S, Metzl N, Le Quéré C, Hood M, Feely RA, Bakker D (2009) Surface Ocean CO₂ Variability and Vulnerability. Deep-Sea Res II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.016.

Gregg JS, Andres RJ, Marland G (2008) China: emissions pattern of the world leader in CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel consumption and cement production.  Geophysical Research Letters 35: L08806, DOI 10.1029/2007GL032887.

Gruber N, Gloor M, Mikaloff Fletcher SE, et al. (2009) Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO₂. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles. 23: GB1005, doi:10.1029/2008GB003349.

Jackson RB, Randerson JT, Canadell JG, Anderson R, Avissar R, Baldocchi DD, Bonan GB, Caldeira K, Diffenbaugh NS, Field CB, Hungate BA, Jobbágy EG, Kueppers LM, Nosetto MD, Pataki DE (2008) Protecting Climate with Forests. Environmental Research Letters 3, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/044006.

Jaenicke J, Rieley JO,  Mott C, Kimman P, Siegert F (2008) Determination of the amount of carbon stored in Indonesian peatlands. Geoderma 147: 151–158.

Hertwich EG, Peters GP (2009) The carbon footprint of nations – a global, trade-linked analysis. Environmental Science and Technology 43:6414-6420.

Hofmann DJ, Butler JH, Tans PP (2009) A new look at atmospheric carbon dioxide. Atmospheric Environment 43: 2084–2086.

Hönisch B, Hemming NG, Archer D, Siddall M, McManus JF (2009) Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Science 324, DOI: 10.1126/science.1171477.

House JI, Huntingford C, Wolfgang Knorr W, Cornell WE, Cox PM, Glen R Harris GR, Jones CD, Lowe JA, Prentice IC (2008) What do recent advances in quantifying climate and carbon cycle uncertainties mean for climate policy? Environ. Res. Lett. 3: 044002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/044002.

Krey V, Canadell JG, Nakicenovic N, Abe Y, Andruleit H, Archer D, Grubler A, Hamilton NTM, Johnson A, Kostov V, Lamarque J-F, Langhorne N, Nisbet EG, O’Neill B, Riahi K, Riedel M, Wang W, Yakushev V (2009)  Gas Hydrates: Entrance to a Methane Age or Climate Threat? Environmental Research Letters 4: 034007 (6pp), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/034007

Lenton A, Codron F, Bopp L, Metzl N, Cadule P, Tagliabue A, Le Sommer J (2009) Stratospheric ozone depletion reduces ocean carbon uptake and enhances ocean acidification. Geophys. Res. Let. 36, L12606.

Le Quéré C, Raupach MR3, Canadell JG3, Marland G et al. (2009) Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide. Nature geosciences, doi: 10.1038/ngeo689

Loire et al (2009) Boosted carbon emissions from Amazon deforestation. Geophysical Research Letters 36, L14810, doi:10.1029/2009GL037526.

Lowe JA, Huntingford C, Raper SCB, et al. (2009) How difficult is it to recover from dangerous levels of global warming? Environmental Research Letters 4: 014012.

Marland G, Hamal K, Jonas M (2009) How uncertain are estimates of CO₂ emissions. Journal of Industrial Ecology 13: 4-7.

Mercado LM, Bellouin N, Sitch S, et al. (2009) Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink. Nature 458: 1014-U87.

Peters GP et al. (2009) Trade, transport, and sinks extend the carbon dioxide responsibility of countries. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9606-2.

Peters GP, Hertwich EG (2008) CO₂ embodied in international trade with implications for global climate policy. Environmental Science and Technology 42: 1401-1407.

Piao S, Fang J, Ciais P, Peylin P, Huang Y, Sitch S, Wang T (2009) The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 458: 1009-1013, doi:10.1038/nature07944.

Raupach MR, Canadell JG, Le Quéré C (2008) Drivers of interannual to interdecadal variability in atmospheric in atmospheric CO₂ growth rate and airborne fraction. Biogeosciences 5: 1601–1613.

Schuur EAG, Vogel JG, Crummer KG, Lee H, Sickman JO, Osterkamp TE (2009) The effect of permafrost thaw on old carbon release and net carbon exchange from tundra. Nature 459, doi:10.1038/nature08031.

Schuster U, Watson AJ, Bates N, Corbière A, Gonzalez-Davila M, Metzl N, Pierrot D, Santana-Casiano M (2009 Trends in North Atlantic sea surface pCO₂ from 1990 to 2006. Deep-Sea Res II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.011.

Sitch S, Huntigford C, Gedney N et al. (2008) Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs). Global Change Biology 14: 1–25, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01626.x.

Takahashi T, Sutherland SC, Wanninkhof R, et al(2009) Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO₂ and net sea-air CO₂ flux over the global oceans. Deep-Sea Res. II 56: 554-577, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.009.

Tarnocai C, Canadell JG, Mazhitova G, Schuur EAG, P. Kuhry P, Zimov S (2009) Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23, GB2023, doi:10.1029/2008GB003327.

van der Werf GR, Morton DC, DeFries RS et al. (2009) CO₂ emissions from forest loss. Nature geoscience 2. November 2009

van der Werf GR,Dempewolf J, Trigg SN (2008) Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia. PNAS 105: 20350–20355

West, TO, Marland G, Singh N, Bhaduri BL, Roddy AB (2009) The human carbon budget: an estimate of the spatial distribution of metabolic carbon consumption and release in the United States. Biogeochemistry 94: 29-41. DOI 10.1007/s10533-009-9306-z.