Download presentation
Presentation is loading. Please wait.
1
Chapter 11 The Global Carbon Cycle
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
2
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.1 The global carbon cycle. All pools are expressed in units of 1015 g C and all annual fluxes in units of 1015 g C/yr, estimated for Values are taken from the text. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
3
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.2 Estimates of the flux of CO2 between the atmosphere and the oceans’ surface for Source: From Denman et al. (2007). Used with permission of Cambridge University Press. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
4
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.3 Increasing amplitude of the seasonal oscillations in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. Source: From Steve Piper, personal communication (2012). Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
5
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.4 Burial of organic carbon on Earth during the past 600 million years. Source: From Olson et al. (1985). Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
6
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.5 Concentrations of atmospheric CO2 estimated from bubbles of gas trapped in ice cores from Antarctica. Source: From Barnola et al. (1995). Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
7
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.6 Concentrations of CH4 in air extracted from Antarctic ice cores. Source: From Etheridge et al. (1998). Used with permission of the American Geophysical Union. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
8
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.7 Concentrations of CH4 in air that is extracted from ice cores in Antarctica dating to 800,000 years before present. Source: From Loulergue et al. (2008). Compare to FIGURE 1.2. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
9
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.8 Concentration of methane (a) and its annual change (b) in Earth's atmosphere during the past three decades. Source: From Dlugokencky et al. (2011). Used with permission of The Royal Society. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
10
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FIGURE 11.9 Linkage of the global carbon and oxygen cycles. Ovals contain estimates of the reservoirs of O2 or the equivalent amount of reduced molecules that could be oxidized by O2. Boxes indicate fluxes of O2 or reduced molecules in moles/year. Source: Modified from Lenton (2001). Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
11
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
TABLE 11.1 Global Budget for Anthropogenic CO2 In Earth’s Atmosphere Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
12
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
TABLE 11.2 Estimated Sources and Sinks of Methane in the Atmosphere in 2010 Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
13
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
TABLE 11.3 Budget for Major Sources and Skins for CO in the Atmosphere Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Similar presentations
© 2024 SlidePlayer.com. Inc.
All rights reserved.