Published May 13, 2020 | Version v1
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The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements

Creators

  • 1. University of California, Irvine
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
  • 3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • 4. National Center for Atmospheric Research,

Description

We use 789 radiocarbon (∆14C) profiles, along with other geospatial information, to create globally-gridded datasets of mineral soil ∆14C and mean age. The spatial resolution is 0.5 degree by 0.5 degree and the vertical resolution is at each 1 cm increment to a soil depth of 1 meter.

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Funding

European Commission
14Constraint - Radiocarbon constraints for models of C cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: from process understanding to global benchmarking 695101