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18 Nov 2025
Research article |
| 18 Nov 2025
| 18 Nov 2025
On a simplified solution of climate-carbon dynamics in idealized flat10MIP simulations
Victor Brovkin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Benjamin M. Sanderson
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Noel G. Brizuela
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Tomohiro Hajima
Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Tatiana Ilyina
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany
Chris D. Jones
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Charles Koven
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
David Lawrence
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA
Peter Lawrence
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA
Hongmei Li
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany
Spencer Liddcoat
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Anastasia Romanou
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Roland Séférian
CNRM, Météo-France, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Lori T. Sentman
NOAA/OAR Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Abigail L. S. Swann
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Jerry Tjiputra
NORCE Research AS, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Tilo Ziehn
CSIRO Environment, Aspendale, Australia
Alexander J. Winkler
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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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.
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