Michio Kawamiya

TL;DR: In this article, eleven coupled climate-carbon cycle models were used to study the coupling between climate change and the carbon cycle. But, there was still a large uncertainty on the magnitude of these sensitivities.

TL;DR: In this article, an earth system model (MIROC-ESM 2010) is described in terms of each model component and their interactions, and results for the CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5) historical simulation are presented to demonstrate the model's performance from several perspectives: atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice, land-surface, ocean and terrestrial biogeochemistry, and atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results from 15 Earth system GCMs for future changes in land and ocean carbon storage and the implications for anthropogenic emissions for four future representative concentration pathways (RCPs) generated by integrated assessment models and used as scenarios by state-of-the-art climate models, enabling quantification of compatible carbon emissions for the four scenarios by complex, process-based models.

TL;DR: The MIROC-ES2L model as mentioned in this paper uses a state-of-the-art climate model as the physical core and embeds a terrestrial biogeochemical component with explicit carbon-nitrogen interaction to account for soil nutrient control and plant growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, an intercomparison project with Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs) undertaken in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is presented.