On a simplified solution of  climate-carbon dynamics in idealized flat10MIP simulations

Brovkin, Victor; Sanderson, Benjamin M.; Brizuela, Noel G.; Hajima, Tomohiro; Ilyina, Tatiana; Jones, Chris D.; Koven, Charles; Lawrence, David; Lawrence, Peter; Li, Hongmei; Liddcoat, Spencer; Romanou, Anastasia; Séférian, Roland; Sentman, Lori T.; Swann, Abigail L. S.; Tjiputra, Jerry; Ziehn, Tilo; Winkler, Alexander J.

doi:10.5194/esd-16-2021-2025

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On a simplified solution of climate-carbon dynamics in idealized flat10MIP simulations

Victor Brovkin, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Noel G. Brizuela, Tomohiro Hajima, Tatiana Ilyina, Chris D. Jones, Charles Koven, David Lawrence, Peter Lawrence, Hongmei Li, Spencer Liddcoat, Anastasia Romanou, Roland Séférian, Lori T. Sentman, Abigail L. S. Swann, Jerry Tjiputra, Tilo Ziehn, and Alexander J. Winkler

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Oct 2025	156	26	10	192
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Dec 2025	388	117	18	523
Jan 2026	559	64	16	639
Feb 2026	279	39	12	330
Mar 2026	187	74	17	278
Apr 2026	184	54	10	248
May 2026	127	19	5	151
Jun 2026	27	11	4	42
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Aug 2026	49	32	35	116
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Short summary

Idealized experiments with Earth system models provide a basis for understanding the response of the carbon cycle to emissions. We show that most models exhibit a quasi-linear relationship between cumulative carbon uptake on land and in the ocean and hypothesize that this relationship does not depend on emission pathways. We reduce the coupled system to only one differential equation, which represents a powerful simplification of the Earth system dynamics as a function of fossil fuel emissions.