Biospheric feedback effects in a synchronously coupled model of human and Earth systems

Peter E Thornton1, Katherine V Calvin2, Andrew D Jones3, Alan V Di Vittorio4, Ben P Bond-Lamberty5, Louise P Chini6, Xiaoying Shi7, Jiafu Mao1, William Drew Collins8, James Edmonds5 and George C Hurtt9, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (6)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (8)Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States