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DOI | 10.1038/s43017-022-00316-6 |
The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system | |
Coppola, Alysha I.; Wagner, Sasha; Lennartz, Sinikka T.; Seidel, Michael; Ward, Nicholas D.; Dittmar, Thorsten; Santin, Cristina; Jones, Matthew W. | |
发表日期 | 2022 |
EISSN | 2662-138X |
起始页码 | 516 |
结束页码 | 532 |
卷号 | 3期号:8 |
英文摘要 | Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia, sequestering carbon in marine and terrestrial environments. However, its production, storage and dynamics, and therefore its role in the broader carbon cycling during global change, are poorly understood. In this Review, we discuss BC cycling across the land-to-ocean continuum. Wildfires are the main source of BC, producing 128 +/- 84 teragrams per year. Negative climate-BC feedbacks could arise as wildfire increases with anthropogenic warming, producing more BC, which in turn will sequester carbon, but the magnitude of these effects are unknown. Most BC is stored in terrestrial systems with some transported to the ocean via rivers and the atmosphere. However, the oceanic BC budget is not balanced, with known BC removal fluxes exceeding BC inputs. We demonstrate these observed inconsistencies using a simple ocean box model, which highlights key areas of future research. Measurements of BC mineralization and export rates along the land-to-ocean continuum and quantification of previously unexplored sources of oceanic BC are needed to close the global BC budget. Black carbon is produced by wildfire and fossil fuel burning, and persists in the environment over centuries to millennia. This Review describes black carbon sources and budgets, discusses its transport along the land-to-ocean continuum and highlights its enigmatic cycling in the ocean. |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS类目 | Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000821719100001 |
来源期刊 | NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/281008 |
作者单位 | Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); United States Department of Energy (DOE); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg; Swansea University; University of East Anglia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Coppola, Alysha I.,Wagner, Sasha,Lennartz, Sinikka T.,et al. The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system[J],2022,3(8). |
APA | Coppola, Alysha I..,Wagner, Sasha.,Lennartz, Sinikka T..,Seidel, Michael.,Ward, Nicholas D..,...&Jones, Matthew W..(2022).The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system.NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT,3(8). |
MLA | Coppola, Alysha I.,et al."The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system".NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT 3.8(2022). |
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