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Vegetation piles on the carbs
Human activty is putting nearly ten billion tons of additional CO2 into the atmosphere each year. These emissions derive from burning of fossil fuels and changes in land use. Only half of this additional CO2 stays in the atmosphere, however. The rest is absorbed by oceans and by land (vegetation + soils). Climate researchers investigate [...]
July 8, 2009
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Biospherica
Biospherica is a commentary on the condition of the terrestrial biosphere, in particular vegetation. More accurately, it discusses analysis and applications of what are often referred to as “bio-geophysical data”. Unfortunately there are many barriers to exploitingВ bio-geophysical data effectively. Data are spread over a number of different platforms, and analytical techniques can be quite [...]
March 22, 2009
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