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These are the intended use-case/justification for one or multiple variable groups. Opportunities are linked to relevant experiment groups. Identifying opportunities helps to provide a structure to map variables against requirements. Each opportunity description will convey why this combination of variables and experiments is important and how they contribute to impact.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| description | This data is needed to construct a closed global carbon budget, and relating emissions to CO2 concentrations |
| expected_impacts | In Concentration-driven experiments, this is needed to infer CO2 emissions and quantify feedbacks. In CO2 emissions-driven experiments, this is needed to trace carbon flows and understand the partitioning of emissions into different land, ocean, and atmosphere pools |
| justification_of_resources | This is needed to understand the relationship between CO2 emissions and concentrations, which is fundamental to the concept of an Earth System Model and a variety of global change problems. |
| lead_theme | Earth System |
| minimum_ensemble_size | 1 |
| name | Constructing a Global Carbon Budget |
| opportunity_id | 18 |
| data_request_themes | Land & Land-Ice, Ocean & Sea-Ice, Earth System |
| experiment_groups | fast-track, scenarios, historical |
| mips | PMIP, DCPP, TIPMIP, C4MIP, FireMIP |
| time_subsets | 80ac3156-a698-11ef-914a-613c0433d878 |
| variable_groups | atmosphere_carbon_cycle_tier1, land_carbon_cycle_tier1, land_carbon_cycle_tier2, ocean_carbon_cycle_tier1, ocean_carbon_cycle_tier2 |