Steve Smith

One question would be how much does NPP change if one converts forest to grassland or cropland? NPP could even go up! (Although if cropland is tilled, soil carbon would...

Updated the above to be more complete, with reference.

And we should make sure we are properly citing data and papers we use in hector.

Looks like what is happening is that there’s a coefficient for forcing per unit emissions that's just multiplied against emissions. However, pre-industrial (e.g. 1850) emissions are not taken into account,...

BC and OC (although the effect is much larger for OC).

That sounds good. I suspect I can do that this afternoon.

Changing to 1750 won't make much of a difference here, since historical open burning emissions are constant before 1850 (and don't change that much before mid-20th century). Forcing in terms...

The anthropogenic portion of BC/OC will change prior to 1850 - which is largely biofuel use being proportional to population at that time. But the open burning part is assumed...

Note that if you cut down half a forest, NPP doesn't necessarily change. It's just a different vegetation type. Any change would be because the new vegetation type has a...

Could you be more specific about what sector(s)/subsector(s) you are seeing this for?