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Fig. 5 | Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Fig. 5

From: Millennium time-scale experiments on climate-carbon cycle with doubled CO2 concentration

Fig. 5

Relationships between cumulative carbon (C) emission and changes in global mean surface air temperature in the experiments of abruptly doubled CO2 concentration (FULL2 × CO2 1000 years; black) and that where CO2 concentration is increased by 1 % year−1 (1pctCO2; 140 years; gray) by two ESMs (MIROC-ESM and MIROC-ES2L) and eight EMICs from EMIC-AR5 (Eby et al. 2013; Zickfeld et al. 2013). Gray-filled circles represent the time when the CO2 concentration reaches about 2 × CO2 level in 1pctCO2 (calculated as the average of years 61–80); black-filled circles represent the final condition of the FULL2 × CO2 experiment (calculated as the average of years 981–1000). Red, blue, and orange arrows indicate the unrealized warming (ΔTUNR), unrealized C uptake (ΔCUNR), and additional C uptake (ΔCADD), as defined in Fig. 4

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