Sentences with phrase «of global carbon cycling»

The policy interest in terms of the global carbon cycle is obvious, although until just a few years ago, Freeman considered his work to be «very obscure.»

These measurements will improve the understanding of the global carbon cycle, conclude Ying Sun from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and colleagues in the journal «Science.»

he unsung heroes of the global carbon cycle are methanogens — microbes at the bottom of the food chain who break down the waste products of other organisms and release methane gas into the atmosphere.

83 % of the global carbon cycle is circulated through the ocean.

Volcanic emissions are a small but important part of the global carbon cycle.

We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature.

The exposure at Duvanny Yar also makes clear the tremendous amount of carbon that has been frozen in Arctic soils and therefore not a reactive part of the global carbon cycle.

«Generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects of CO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of housands of years into the future.»

Jain, A.K., et al., Distribution of radiocarbon as a test of global carbon cycle models.

Fig. 3 Scheme of the global carbon cycle.

Studies of the global carbon cycle often identify biomass energy as being among the most important potential benefits associated with the forest industry value chain...» They then go on to worry that the use of paper fiber (biomass) for fuel would cause ``... - market - distorting public policies that disproportionately favor the use of these materials for their fuel value, - public policies that fail to recognize the direct and indirect economic and social benefits associated with using biomass as a feed stock for forest products manufacturing,...».

Mathematical physicist Enting (author of the Australian Mathematical Scences Institute book Twisted: The distorted mathematics of greenhouse denial) worked at Australia's leading science agency, the CSIRO, for 24 years in atmospheric research and modelling of the global carbon cycle.

Second, using measured atmospheric CO2 concentrations short circuits two layers of modeling which themselves are major sources of uncertainty, namely, estimating global emissions and, then, estimating the atmospheric CO2 concentrations (based on complex models of the global carbon cycle).

Figure 1 shows a simplified diagram of the global carbon cycle.

Subsequently, the carbon continues to be moved between the different reservoirs of the global carbon cycle, such as soils, the deeper ocean and rocks.

That means this carbon has not been a part of the global carbon cycle for thousands of years, and releasing it now could have devastating consequences.

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are naturally regulated by many processes that are part of the global carbon cycle.

Forests are major components of the global carbon cycle, providing substantial feedback to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations1.

In contrast, generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects ofCO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years into the future.»

... Soil is a huge component of the global carbon cycle.

January 18, 2007 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences for 2006 to Wallace S. Broecker, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, «for his innovative and pioneering research on the operation of the global carbon cycle within the ocean - atmosphere - biosphere system, and its interaction with climate»

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Global warming, from the release of carbon dioxide and perturbations to the nitrogen cycle from fertilizers

Race between sinks and sources Northern Eurasia plays an important part in the global carbon cycle because of its large areas of forest and huge soil carbon reservoirs, he added.

The effects of these microscopic coccolithophores are far - reaching: they influence biogeochemistry, global carbon cycling, and global microbial ecology.

«What's more, the savannahs play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and therefore affect the planet's climate cycles,» says Victor Odipo of Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany).

The study also has implications for understanding the global carbon cycle that involves the transport of surface carbon back into the Earth's mantle.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

Ken Caldera A professor at Stanford and staff member in the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Caldeira works at the nexus of climate, the carbon cycle, and energy.

The new modeling tool — Carbon, Organisms, Rhizosphere and Protection in the Soil Environment, or CORPSE — represents a major advance in the ability of scientists to simulate the global carbon cycle.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

CO2 Rising explains the global carbon cycle, what happens to all the individual atoms that are constantly cycling into, out of and through the biosphere.

Former President Barack Obama in 2014 made research on understanding carbon dynamics in these coastal ecosystems a priority because of their importance to the global carbon cycle.

They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.

This is important knowledge to advance our understanding of the reef functioning, and another step towards quantifying the role of cold - water coral reefs in the global carbon cycle,» explains Lorenzo Rovelli.

These little organisms are central to the global carbon cycle, a role that could be disrupted if rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and warming temperatures interfere with their ability to grow their calcified shells.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

«Just a couple of years ago, the issue of sink saturation was barely known,» says Will Steffen of Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences, who chairs the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme, which has pioneered research into the global carbon cycle.

The loss of satellite - based «ocean color» measurements would be a blow to climate science, because phytoplankton — tiny ocean plants — help regulate the global carbon cycle.

In sodium - poor soil, a University of Oklahoma ecologist has found, small amounts of added salt boost invertebrate biomass and increase decomposition — so much so, his latest work suggests, that a lack of salt could have a major impact on the global carbon cycle.

Lyons and coauthors, along with research groups from around world over, are focusing current efforts on the timing and drivers of oxygenation in the late Proterozoic, favoring a combination of global - scale mountain building, evolutionary controls on the way carbon is cycled in the biosphere, and concomitant climate events.

These disparities have led to major doubts about the reliability of global forest area estimates, and to questions about the real contribution made by forests to the global carbon cycle.

In a study of the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, Siegel and his colleagues used those nuggets to their advantage.

Nonetheless mature forests do play an important role in the global carbon cycle as stable carbon pools, and clearance of forests leads to an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

According to the researchers, oceans are a central component in the global carbon cycle through their storage, transport and transformations of carbon constituents.

«These numbers are important to quantifying the global carbon cycle and making predictions about future stocks and flows of carbon.»

«Precise measurement of the solar - induced chlorophyll fluorescence, derived from OCO - 2 — but also from follow - on missions such as the European Sentinel - 5P, which will be launched coincidentally now on October 13th — enables scientists to quantify gross primary production and its contribution to the global carbon cycle,» says Guanter.

An article published in the Global Biogeochemical Cycles on 20th of February 2018 estimates that solar radiation mineralizes 45 teragrams of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon in the ocean.

That target has been «applauded by the international community given China's emissions have been growing at rates of 5 % to 8 % over the past decade and a half,» says Canadell, who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon global carbon cycle.

«Nematodes may play a significant but unacknowledged role in the global nutrient cycling of carbon, nitrogen, methane and sulfur,» Bik said.