1-4: Atmospheric Composition, Carbon Dioxide

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• The Carbon Dioxide Cost of Traveling
  
  
• Fertilization of Arctic Soils Produces a Positive Feedback to Global Warming
  
  
• Where Has All the Carbon Gone?
  
  
• Bloom Doesn't Last Long
  
  
• Ocean Fertilization with Iron Leads to Long-Lasting Blooms
  
  
• Leaves Fall Off and Decay, but What do Roots do?
  
  
• Update on Ocean Fertilization to Absorb CO₂
  
  
• Increased CO₂ and Increased Temperature: Which Came First?
  
  
• Synergistic Effects of CO₂ and O₃
  
  
• Contribution of Major Wildfires to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• The next ice age may not arrive so soon
  
  
• Role of Microscopic Life Forms in the Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere
  
  
• Engineering Solution to Reducing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Raises Serious Environmental Problems
  
  
• Global Warming Slows Vegetative Decay
  
  
• Burying CO₂ in the deep ocean
  
  
• Carbon Dioxide Variations have a Key Role in Creating Ice Ages.
  
  
• Pearson, P. N., and M. R. Palmer, 2000: Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years. Nature, 406, 695-699.
  
  
• Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-1993. Executive Summary. EPA.
  
  

Websites

• Global Annual Total Precipitation
  
  
• UK to Pump Greenhouse Gas Under Sea
  
  
• Current Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• The Climate Conditions during the Triassic Period
  
  
• Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program
  
  
• The North American Carbon Program Plan (NACP)
  
  
• The Debate on Whether CO₂ Consuming Trees Should Provide Credits Aginst the Amount of Greenhouse Gases Countries are Allowed to Emit.
  
  
• Temperature and CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere over the past 400,000 years
  
  
• CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere: Mauna Loa curve
  
  
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
  
  
• Global atmospheric concentration of CO₂
  
  
• Saline Aquifer CO₂ Storage (SACS)
  
  
• Atmospheric Chemistry - an introduction.
  
  
• Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality Glossary
  
  
• Glossary: Carbon Dioxide and Climate
  
  
• Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center of the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
  

Additional References

• Heath, J. and Co-Authors, 2005: Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces sequestration of root-derived soil carbon. Science, 309, 1711-1713.
  
  
• Ferretti, D. F, and Co-Authors,2005: Unexpected changes to the global methane budget over the past 2000 years. Science, 309, 1714-1718.
  
  
• Pagani, M., J. C. Zachos, K. H. Freeman, B. Tipple, and S. Bohaty, 2005: Marked decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the Paleogene. Science, 309, 600-603.
  
  
• Halbwachs, and Co-Authors, 2004: Degassing the "Killer Lakes" Nyos and Monoun, Cameroon. EOS, 85, 281-285.
  
  
• Thomas, H., Y. Bozec, K. Elkalay, and H.J.W. de Baar, 2004: Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping. Science, 304, 1005-1008.
  
  
• Pacala, S. W. et al., 2001: Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates. Science, 292, 2316-2320.
  
  
• Fang, J. A. Chen, C. Peng, X. Zhao, and L. Ci, 2001: Changes in forest biomass carbon storage in China between 1949 and 1998. Science, 292, 2320-2322.
  
  
• Chambers, J.Q., N. Higuchi, E.S. Tribuzy, and S.E. Trumbore, 2001: Carbon sink for a century. Nature, 410, 429.
  
  
• American Geophysical Union, 1999: Climate change and greenhouse gases. EOS, 80, 457-458.
  
  
• Tans, P. P., and J. W. C. White, 1998: In balance, with a little help from the plants. Science, 281, 183-184.
  
  
• Stone, Richard, 1998: Russian outpost readies for otherworldly quest. Science, 279, 658-661.
  (This reference discusses the Russian Vostok station at which the 3.7 km ice core was taken)
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A.Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 75-78.
  
  
• McKee, David, ed., 1994: Tropospheric Ozone. Lewis Publishers. 333pp.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, 1990: Climate Change, The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Cambridge University Press. p. 7-18
  
  
• Houghton, J.T., G.J. Jenkins, J.J. Ephraums, eds, 1990: 1990 Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Goulden, M. L., S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Harden, S. E. Trumbore, P. M. Crill, S. T. Gower, T. Fries, B. C. Daube, S.-M. Fan, D. J. Sutton, A. Bazzaz, and J. W. Munger, 1998: Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw. Science, 279, 214-217.