The carbon cycle

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The carbon cycle. The global carbon cycle shows the carbon reservoirs in GtC (gigatonne= one thousand million tonnes) and fluxes in GtC/year. The indicated figures are annual averages over the period 1980 to 1989. The component cycles are simplified and the figures present average values. The riverine flux, particularly the anthropogenic portion, is currently very poorly quantified and is not shown here. Evidence is accumulating that many of the fluxes can fluctuate significantly from year to year. In contrast to the static view conveyed in figures like this one, the carbon system is dynamic and coupled to the climate system on seasonal, interannual and decadal timescales.
Sources Center for climate research, Institute for environmental studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Okanagan university college in Canada, Department of geography; World Watch, November-December 1998; Climate change 1995, The science of climate change, contribution of working group 1 to the second assessment of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, UNEP and WMO, Cambridge university press, 1996
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Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Appears in Vital Climate Graphics
Published 2000
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