The Carbon Cycle: Rapid Processes


Simplified principal sources and sinks of carbon dioxide which act on a rapid timescale (1-100 years).
[note: the below estimates vary slighly from those above due to measurement uncertainties.]

To view details of land-atmosphere exchanges, click here.
To view details of ocean-atmosphere exchanges, click here.
For a detailed qualitative systems description of the carbon cycle, go here.


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