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DOE OSTI2021

Improving Marine Biogeochemistry-Climate Feedbacks in ACME (Final Report)

Improve representation of marine biogeochemistry within E3SM to better capture climate-biogeochemistry feedbacks. This overall goal includes a number of components listed below. A key goal of this project is to better simulate the biological carbon pump, the transfer of carbon from surface waters to the ocean interior by sinking particulate organic matter (POM) and transport of dissolved organic matter (DOM). This is a primary feedback to climate as it directly modifies the air-sea CO 2 flux.

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES↗
DOE OSTI2021

On the modeling paradigm of plant root nutrient acquisition

Plant root nutrient acquisition, and to a lesser extent foliar nutrient uptake, maintain plant metabolism and strongly regulate terrestrial biogeochemistry and carbon-climate feedbacks. However, terrestrial biogeochemical models differ in their representations of plant root nutrient acquisition, leading to significantly different, and uncertain, carbon cycle and future climate projections. Here we first review biogeochemical principles and observations relevant to three essential plant root nutrient acquisition mechanisms: activity of nutrient acquiring proteins, maintenance of nutrient stoichiometry, and energy expenditure for these processes. We next examine how these mechanisms are considered in three existing modeling paradigms, and conclude by recommending the capacity-based approach, the need for observations, and necessary modeling developments of plant root nutrient acquisition to improve carbon-climate feedback projections.

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES↗