Advances in Earth Science ›› 2003, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (6): 980-987. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2003.06.0980

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TRENDS AND ADVANCES OF THE GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES ON CARBON CYCLE

Qu Jiansheng, Sun Chengquan, Zhang Zhiqiang,Gao Feng   

  1. The Scientific Information Center for Resources and Environment, CAS, Lanzhou 730000, China
  • Received:2003-03-17 Revised:2003-05-29 Online:2003-12-20 Published:2003-12-01

Qu Jiansheng, Sun Chengquan, Zhang Zhiqiang,Gao Feng. TRENDS AND ADVANCES OF THE GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES ON CARBON CYCLE[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2003, 18(6): 980-987.

Global carbon cycle is one of the main factors that influence the global environment system. Especially, it effects the Earth climate and the atmospheric temperature, etc. Since the Industrial Revolution, more carbon dioxide has been discharged into the atmosphere which leads high atmospheric temperature. Till today, the content of the carbon dioxide in atmosphere is increasing still. Under the framework of UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, more and more countries have paid attention to the problem of carbon emission. More research activities and programs have been launched. Taking the Carbon Cycle Project of ESSP and the North America Carbon Program of US as examples, the research focus and trends of this field were addressed. The carbon pools, e.g. lithosphere, ocean, terrestrial ecosystem, atmosphere, and human society, and their storages are the natural base of the carbon cycle research. The contributions to the global cycle of all the carbon pools and the budget of the carbon emission from human society were analyzed. Some suggestions were given at the end of this paper.

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