Future Research Directions for Soil Carbon Modeling

Abstract

Soil carbon is a recent but critical sub‐component of Earth system models that contributes significant uncertainty to carbon cycle simulations in the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment. Understanding and reducing this uncertainty is a high priority for the next round of IPCC assessments. To this end, experts in soil carbon dynamics gathered in Breckenridge, Colo., for 3 days to discuss next steps for global soil carbon modeling.