Representing agriculture in Earth System Models: approaches and priorities for development.

ABSTRACT: Earth System Model (ESM) advances now enable improved representations of spatially and temporally varying anthropogenic climate forcings. One critical forcing is global agriculture, which is now extensive in land-use and intensive in management, owing to 20^th century development trends. Agriculture and food systems now contribute nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions and require copious inputs and resources, such as fertilizer, water, and land. Much uncertainty remains in quantifying important agriculture-climate interactions, including surface moisture and energy balances and biogeochemical cycling. Despite these externalities and uncertainties, agriculture is increasingly being leveraged to function as a net sink of anthropogenic carbon, and there is much emphasis on f

SUBMITTER: McDermid SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6298791 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature