Carbon global budget

Einsele, G., Yan, J., Hinderer, M. 2001. Atmospheric carbon burial in modern lake basins and its significance for the global carbon budget. Global and Planetary Change, 30, 167-195. 

Bopp, L., LeQuere, C., Heimann, M., Manning, A., and Monfray, P. (2002). Climate-induced oceanic oxygen fluxes Implications for the contemporary carbon budget. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 16(2), 1022, doi 10.1029/2001GB001445. 

Phillips D. L., Brown S. L., Schroeder P. E., and Birdsey R. A. (2000) Toward error analysis of large-scale forest carbon budgets. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 9, 305—313. 

The most common way in which the global carbon budget is calculated and analyzed is through simple diagrammatical or mathematical models. Diagrammatical models usually indicate sizes of reservoirs and fluxes (Figure 1). Most mathematical models use computers to simulate carbon flux between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, and between oceans and the atmosphere. Existing carbon cycle models are simple, in part, because few parameters can be estimated reliably. 

Broecker, W. S. Takahashi, T Simpson, H. J. Peng, T. H. 1979. Fate of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and the global carbon budget. Science 1979,206, 409. 

Fig. 11-16 Partial pressure of CO2 in surface ocean water along the GEOSECS tracks (a) the Atlantic western basin data obtained between August 1972 and January 1973 (b) the central Pacific data along the 180° meridian from October 1973 to February 1974. The dashed line shows atmospheric CO2 for comparison. The equatorial areas of both oceans release CO2 to the atmosphere, whereas the northern North Atlantic is a strong sink for CO2. (Modified with permission from W. S. Broecker et al. (1979). Fate of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and the global carbon budget, Science 206,409 18, AAAS.)...

Cole, J.J. Prairie, Y.T. et al. 2007. Plumbing the global carbon cycle Integrating inland waters into the terrestrial carbon budget. Ecosystems, 10, 171-184. 

Meybeck, M. 1993. Riverine transport of atmospheric carbon sources, global typology and budget. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 70, 443-463. 

Liu et al. (2008) for the current global flux of 0.13 Pg C yr1 to the continental aquatic ecosystem. In effect, based on the above estimates, the flux of C to groundwater could account for 2% to 12% of the missing carbon sink in the global carbon budget. 

Delaney, M., and E. A. Boyle (1987), "Cadmium/Calcium in Late Miocene Benthic Foraminifera and Changes in the Global Organic Carbon Budget", Nature 330, 156-159. 

Woodwell, G. M., and Houghton, R. H. (1977). Biotic influences on the world carbon budget. In Global Chemical Cycles and Their Alterations by Man, Stumm, W., ed., John Wiley Sons, New York, pp. 61-72. 

According to the global carbon budget by IPCC AR4 report, fossil fuels emission was 7.2 GtonC/y and the atmospheric increase was 4.1 GtonC/y in 2000-2005. The biomass nuclear process removes about 4.9 GtonC/y from atmosphere in the long term, so it will eventually decrease the atmospheric C02 concentration. 

While the coastal ocean has been largely ignored in global carbon budgets, recent work has shown that shelf regions may actually be CO2 sinks recently referred to as the continental shelf pump, that may account for as much as -0.95 Pg C y 1. 

Fearnside, P. M., N. Leal Filho, and F. M. Fernandes. 1993. Rainforest burning and global carbon budget biomass, combustion efficiency, and charcoal formation in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) 98(D9) 16733-16743. 

Gifford R. M., COi and plant growth under water and light stress implications for balancing the global carbon budget. Search, 10, 316-318 (1979). 

Plattner, G. K., Joos, F., and Stocker, T. F. (2002). Revision of the global carbon budget due to changing air-sea oxygen fluxes. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 16(4), 1096, doi 10.1029/2001GB001746. 

Maslin M. A. and Thomas E. (2003) Balancing the deglacial global carbon budget the hydrate factor. Quat Sci. Rev. 22, 1729-1736. 

Van Campo E., Guiot J., and Peng C. (1993) A data-based reappraisal of the terrestrial carbon budget at the last glacial maximum. Global Planet. Change 8, 189-201. 

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