Publications by authors named "Joseph Majkut"
Tropical nighttime warming as a dominant driver of variability in the terrestrial carbon sink.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
December 2015
Article Synopsis
- The terrestrial biosphere is currently absorbing a substantial amount of carbon but may become a carbon source due to climate changes surpassing CO2 absorption in the 21st century.
- Research indicates that the variability of the global land carbon sink has increased by 50-100% over the last 50 years.
- The greatest influence on this variability is tropical nighttime warming, which affects respiration rates, suggesting that carbon stored in tropical forests could be at risk from rising temperatures.
An observing system simulation for Southern Ocean carbon dioxide uptake.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
July 2014
The Southern Ocean is critically important to the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2. Up to half of the excess CO2 currently in the ocean entered through the Southern Ocean. That uptake helps to maintain the global carbon balance and buffers transient climate change from fossil fuel emissions.
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