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Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-731-2015
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-731-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
Short communication
 | 
27 Nov 2015
Short communication |  | 27 Nov 2015

Quantifying differences in land use emission estimates implied by definition discrepancies

B. D. Stocker and F. Joos

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Estimates for land use change CO2 emissions (eLUC) rely on different approaches, implying conceptual differences of what eLUC represents. We use an Earth System Model and quantify differences between two commonly applied methods to be ~20% for historical eLUC but increasing under a future scenario. We decompose eLUC into component fluxes, quantify them, and discuss best practices for global carbon budget accountings and model-data intercomparisons relying on different methods to estimate eLUC.
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