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Impact Of Large-Scale Climate Extremes On Biospheric Carbon Fluxes: An Intercomparison Based On Mstmip Data, Jakov Zscheischler, Anna M. Michalak, Christopher Schwalm, Miguel D. Mahecha, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Markus Reichstein, Gwenaëlle Berthier, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Cook, Bassil El-Masri, Maoyi Huang, Akihiko Ito, Atul Jain, Anthony King, Huimin Lei, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Jiafu Mao, Shushi Peng, Benjamin Poulter, Daniel Ricciuto, Xiaoying Shi, Bo Tao, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Viovy, Weile Wang, Yaxing Wei, Jia Yang, Ning Zeng

Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu

Understanding the role of climate extremes and their impact on the carbon (C) cycle is increasingly a focus of Earth system science. Climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves, or heavy precipitation events can cause substantial changes in terrestrial C fluxes. On the other hand, extreme changes in C fluxes are often, but not always, driven by extreme climate conditions. Here we present an analysis of how extremes in temperature and precipitation, and extreme changes in terrestrial C fluxes are related to each other in 10 state-of-the-art terrestrial carbon models, all driven by the same climate forcing. We use model …