Spatial analysis carbon cycle

Budgets and cycles can be considered on very different spatial scales. In this book we concentrate on global, hemispheric and regional scales. The choice of a suitable scale (i.e. the size of the reservoirs), is determined by the goals of the analysis as well as by the homogeneity of the spatial distribution. For example, in carbon cycle models it is reasonable to consider the atmosphere as one reservoir (the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is fairly uniform). On the other hand, oceanic carbon content and carbon exchange processes exhibit large spatial variations and it is reasonable to separate the... 

Tarko A.M. (2003). Analysis of Global and Regional Changes in Biogeochemical Carbon Cycle A Spatially Distributed Model, Interim Report IR-03-041. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, 28... 

Richardson, T. L., Jackson, G. A., Ducklow, H. W., and Roman, M. R. (2006). Spatial and seasonal patterns of carbon cycling through planktonic food webs of the Arabian Sea determined by inverse analysis. Deep Sea Res. II53, 555—575. 

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