Sentences with phrase «sink for»

This doesn't change the measured / calculated mass balance which shows a near - continuous net sink for all natural sources / sinks together.

The natural sink for CO2 is the formation of limestone on the sea floor from the skeletons of those tiny sea creatures.

There is a sink for methane hydrates.

JCH As a former sub sailor, sea water temperature was very important for a number of reasons, it being the ultimate heat sink for all electronics, cooling and propulsion equipment, as well as determining operational depth at times.

What about the claim that the U.S. is a net sink for CO2 (and therefore it doesn't matter how much CO2 we emit, and the rest of the world should be grateful, etc)?

so the deeper than 700 meter ocean can be a sink for heat without a significant rise in temperature.

Massage the mixture into your hands over the sink for as long as it feels good, then rinse with warm water.

It is still possible that, even though warming is increasing, it could have increased more had the ocean not acted as a sink for heat.»

Upland (i.e., well - drained, oxic) soils are a net sink for atmospheric methane; as methane diffuses from the atmosphere into these soils, methane consuming (i.e., methanotrophic) bacteria oxidize it.

1) Oceans act as a sink for warmth, it takes them a long time to warm or cool through their sheer volume.

Sabine, C.L., R.A. Feely, N. Gruber, R.M., Key, K. Lee, J.L. Bullister, R. Wanninkhof, C.S. Wong, D.W.R. Wallace, B. Tilbrook, F.J. Millero, T.H. Peng, A. Kozyr, T. Ono, and A.F. Rios (2004): The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2.

Per Henry's law the ocean surface is a net sink for atmospheric CO2...

Oxidation by chlorine (Cl) atoms in the marine atmospheric boundary layer is suggested as an additional sink for CH4, possibly constituting an additional loss of about 19 Tg (CH4) yr — 1 (Gupta et al., 1997; Tyler et al., 2000; Platt et al., 2004; Allan et al., 2005).

Positive values indicate that the region is a source and negative values indicate that the region is a sink for the given gas.

The oceans are by far the largest heat sink for the Earth, absorbing the vast majority of extra heat trapped in the system by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases.

And the oxygen balance can give information if the biosphere is a net source or sink for CO2.

JamesG, can you give some references to the literature where the errors in the oxygen measurement are that large that they invalidate that the biosphere is a net sink for CO2?

Several people have expressed interest here in learning more about the carbon cycle, the role of the ocean as a sink for anthropogenic CO2, etc..

Thus the oceans are a net sink for CO2.

The ocean is a net sink for the human added CO2.

Thus in the earlier period, when emissions were less than 2 GtC / year, it may have been that nature was a contributor to the increase, or a sink for all human emissions, but in average a sink.

An important sink for CO2 is geological weathering.

Back on earth, we know (thanks to Takahashi et al, Sabine et al, and lots of others) that the ocean has been a net carbon sink for the atmosphere for at least the past few decades.

Using inorganic carbon measurements from an international survey effort in the 1990s and a tracer - based separation technique, we estimate a global oceanic anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) sink for the period from 1800 to 1994 of 118 ± 19 petagrams of carbon.

Long - term Cenozoic temperature trends, the warming up to about 50 Myr before present (BP) and subsequent long - term cooling, are likely to be, at least in large part, a result of the changing natural source of atmospheric CO2, which is volcanic emissions that occur mainly at continental margins due to plate tectonics (popularly «continental drift»); tectonic activity also affects the weathering sink for CO2 by exposing fresh rock.

Last but not least, the isotope ratio is still alive and kicking: the alternative source for low 13C besides fossil fuel burning is the biosphere, and the biosphere is a net sink for CO2, thus a net sink for 12CO2, thus doesn't play any role in the 13C decline...

But the oxygen balance shows that the biosphere is a net source of O2, thus a net sink for CO2 and preferably of 12CO2.

It is however not as large as would be predicted from the geographical distribution of fossil fuel burning a fact that suggests the existence of a northern sink for CO2, as already recognised a decade ago (Keeling et al., 1989; Tans et al., 1990; Enting and Mansbridge, 1991).

Andrew Balmford, professor of conservation science at the University of Cambridge, and one of the report's authors, says: «Land is a source of greenhouse gases if it is used to farm fertilizer - hungry crops or methane - producing cattle, or it can be a sink for greenhouse gases — through sequestration.

Even without the above lack of alternatives, the mass balance still holds: as long as the increase in the atmosphere is less than what humans emit, then nature as a whole is a net sink for CO2, doesn't add anything to the total mass of CO2 in the atmosphere, even if it circulates 10, 100 or 1,000 times more CO2 over the seasons.

The thing that you are typing on is attached to a box which has got this chip inside which has this thing with fins that acts to cool the chip by providing a sink for the heat that the chip is generating.

The ocean is a heat - sink for crying out loud.

That is based on the excellent fit of the variability of T and dCO2 / dt, but variability and trend have nothing to do with each other: variability is caused by the temperature influence on (tropical) vegetation, while the trend is not caused by vegetation changes (vegetation is an increasing sink for CO2)...

T is not responsible for the offset and slope of dCO2 / dt, as vegetation is a net sink for CO2 over periods longer than 2 - 3 years.

In addition to providing a sink for carbon, rangelands provide a wide variety of other natural benefits to society, including food, fiber, habitat, watershed health, open space, and cultural value.

«Carbon models» may «indicate that the ocean will be a net sink for CO2» (as you write), but, inasmuch as the natural carbon cycle is so much greater than the human emissions, we are talking about a small difference between large numbers.

Carbon models all indicate that the ocean will continue to be a net sink for CO2 for a long long time into the future on the scale of centuries or even millennia.

Thus nature is a net sink for CO2, not a source.

In determining any nation's fair share of safe global emissions, the nation must either assume that all humans have an equal right to use the atmosphere as a sink for greenhouse gases, or identify another allocation formula based upon morally relevant criteria.

Soil is a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.

As the dominant reservoir for heat, the oceans are critical for measuring the radiation imbalance of the planet and the surface layer of the oceans plays the role of thermostat and heat source / sink for the lower atmosphere.

Healthy forests play a key role in global ecosystems as they contain much of the terrestrial biodiversity on the planet and act as a net sink for capturing atmospheric carbon.

OH radicals also act as a chemical sink for other trace gases.

I hadn't really considered the important point of how effectively the increased biomass is exported down through the water column so that it becomes a long - term sink for carbon and is not quickly recycled back to the atmosphere.

From Houston: «Even after switching to surface water, the ground will continue to sink for several years, Kasmarek said.

His reference to the oceans» role as a sink for CO2 and heat is significant in the present debate about the apparent slight slow - down in the pace of atmospheric warming and the likelihood that the heat is going into the oceans instead.

Thus nature is a net sink for CO2, whatever the natural inflows involved.

Cynaobacteria stock, despite the erronous Boyce paper, paper to be increasing and they represent a huge oceanic sink for CO2:

Matty, have a look at Ferdinand's comment @ 557 where he says: «Thus nature is a net sink for CO2, whatever the natural inflows involved.»

The oceans are acting as a heat sink for rising temperatures and have absorbed about one - third of the carbon dioxide produced by human activities.