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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 | These variables are needed to benchmark, understand, and attribute changes to the global carbon cycle, as well as other biogeochemical cycles on land and ocean. |
| expected_impacts | Understanding changes to carbon sinks across global change scenarios, and benchmarking the fidelity of land and ocean biogeochemical components of ESMs, is needed to understand the relationship between CO2 emissions, CO2 concentrations, global climate change, and other biogeochemical cycles, across historical, future, and idealized scenarios. |
| justification_of_resources | The coupling of carbon and climate as enabled through Earth system models requires benchmarking the fidelity of carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, and attributing changes in carbon sinks to forcings and feedbacks in the Earth system. |
| lead_theme | Earth System |
| minimum_ensemble_size | 1 |
| name | Benchmarking and Attributing Changes to Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles |
| opportunity_id | 10 |
| data_request_themes | Land & Land-Ice, Ocean & Sea-Ice, Earth System |
| experiment_groups | fast-track, scenarios, historical |
| mips | C4MIP, DCPP, PMIP, DAMIP |
| time_subsets | 80ac3156-a698-11ef-914a-613c0433d878 |
| variable_groups | atmosphere_carbon_cycle_tier1, carbon_isotopic_variables, land_benchmarking_and_landcover_variables_tier1, land_benchmarking_and_landcover_variables_tier2, land_carbon_cycle_tier1 ... and 6 moreatmosphere_carbon_cycle_tier1, carbon_isotopic_variables, land_benchmarking_and_landcover_variables_tier1, land_benchmarking_and_landcover_variables_tier2, land_carbon_cycle_tier1, land_carbon_cycle_tier2, land_nitrogen_cycle_tier1, land_nitrogen_cycle_tier2, ocean_carbon_cycle_tier1, ocean_carbon_cycle_tier2, land_ch4_fluxes |