Carbon in the Geobiosphere
Title | Carbon in the Geobiosphere PDF eBook |
Author | Fred T. Mackenzie |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2006-12-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1402042388 |
The book covers the fundamentals of the biogeochemical behavior of carbon near the Earth’s surface. It is mainly a reference text for Earth and environmental scientists. It presents an overview of the origins and behavior of the carbon cycle and atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the human effects on them. The book can also be used for a one-semester course at an intermediate to advanced level addressing the behavior of the carbon and related cycles.
Carbon in Earth
Title | Carbon in Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Hazen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 716 |
Release | 2018-12-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1501508318 |
Volume 75 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry addresses a range of questions that were articulated in May 2008 at the First Deep Carbon Cycle Workshop in Washington, DC. At that meeting 110 scientists from a dozen countries set forth the state of knowledge about Earth's carbon. They also debated the key opportunities and top objectives facing the community. Subsequent deep carbon meetings in Bejing, China (2010), Novosibirsk, Russia (2011), and Washington, DC (2012), as well as more than a dozen smaller workshops, expanded and refined the DCO's decadal goals. The 20 chapters that follow elaborate on those opportunities and objectives.
The Carbon Cycle
Title | The Carbon Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | T. M. L. Wigley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2000-05-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0521583373 |
Leading scientists describe how we can reduce CO2 emissions; for graduate students and researchers.
Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere
Title | Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere PDF eBook |
Author | Max A. Beran |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2013-06-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3642799434 |
Anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has been recognized as the primary agent in global climate change. The volume discusses the possibilities for limiting that increase by the long-term storage of carbon in soils, vegetation, wetlands and oceans. Each of these storage media is analysed in detail to elucidate those processes responsible for the uptake and release of carbon. Several chapters address the practical prospects for deliberate interventions aimed at adjusting the balance in favour of uptake over release, i.e. sequestration, while having regard to simultaneous changes in the various environments.
The Global Carbon Cycle
Title | The Global Carbon Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Heimann |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 620 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Of workshop on interannual variations in the carbon cycle / T. Volk and R. Keeling -- Summary of workshop on dissolved organic carbon in the ocean / J. R. Toggweiler and J. Orr -- Summary of workshop on the relative roles of physics and chemistry in the marine carbon cycle / G. Evans and J. Parslow -- Summary of workshop on terrestrial carbon cycling / I. C. Prentice and W. Emanuel -- Summary of workshop on measurement and modelling of the terrestrial net carbon flux / P. G. Jarvis and R. F. Houghton.
Carbon and Its Domestication
Title | Carbon and Its Domestication PDF eBook |
Author | A.M. Mannion |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2006-01-12 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781402039560 |
Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its biogeochemical cycle has been a mainstay of development. This domestication is characterized by a number of thresholds: control of fire, development of agriculture, expansion of Europe, fossil-fuel use and biotechnology. All have exacted an environmental toll, not least being climatic change and biodiversity loss. Carbon management now and in the future is a ‘hot’ political issue. There is no existing book which focuses on the pivotal role of carbon in the environment and society and the ways in which carbon has been domesticated in time and space to generate wealth and political advantage. Students of environmental science, geography, biology and general science will find this work invaluable as a cross-disciplinary text.
The Global Carbon Cycle
Title | The Global Carbon Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | David Archer |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1400837073 |
A must-have introduction to this fundamental driver of the climate system The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates. The Global Carbon Cycle features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle.