A new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets
We introduce a new method for analyzing the carbon budget using box models and a mass balance approach. The method describes the net flow of carbon between the atmosphere and other reservoirs. The method assumes that the data can be explained by having the carbon move in and out of the atmosphere th...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2107.08885 2023-05-15T14:03:06+02:00 A new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets Nadeau, Alice McGehee, Richard Lehman, Clarence 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2107.08885 https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08885 unknown arXiv Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Quantitative Methods q-bio.QM FOS Biological sciences Article CreativeWork article Preprint 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2107.08885 2022-03-10T14:02:54Z We introduce a new method for analyzing the carbon budget using box models and a mass balance approach. The method describes the net flow of carbon between the atmosphere and other reservoirs. The method assumes that the data can be explained by having the carbon move in and out of the atmosphere through two reservoirs, one consisting of isotopically light carbon (biotic) and the other consisting of isotopically heavy carbon (abiotic). The systems are underdetermined from the data, so the Occam's razor approach is to assume that the least amount of carbon moves between the atmosphere and the reservoirs. As data from known sources and sinks are added to the model, one can determine the constraints on the unknown sources and sinks. To illustrate the method, we analyze data from the Mauna Loa Observatory and data from Antarctic ice cores. : 28 pages, 15 figures Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic |
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We introduce a new method for analyzing the carbon budget using box models and a mass balance approach. The method describes the net flow of carbon between the atmosphere and other reservoirs. The method assumes that the data can be explained by having the carbon move in and out of the atmosphere through two reservoirs, one consisting of isotopically light carbon (biotic) and the other consisting of isotopically heavy carbon (abiotic). The systems are underdetermined from the data, so the Occam's razor approach is to assume that the least amount of carbon moves between the atmosphere and the reservoirs. As data from known sources and sinks are added to the model, one can determine the constraints on the unknown sources and sinks. To illustrate the method, we analyze data from the Mauna Loa Observatory and data from Antarctic ice cores. : 28 pages, 15 figures |
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Nadeau, Alice McGehee, Richard Lehman, Clarence |
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A new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets |
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A new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets |
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A new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets |
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A new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets |
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A new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets |
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new method of carbon budget analysis with application to present and paleo atmospheric concentration data sets |
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