American scientists were able to understand the nature of distribution of gas on the Ground.
A NASA satellite has collected new data on how carbon dioxide (CO2) is distributed in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Orbiting carbon Observatory found that El niño greatly increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.
Due to the increase in temperature in the waters of the Pacific ocean, the accelerated production of carbon dioxide. The annual increase was the highest for at least two thousand years.
It was found that about 80% of the gas was allocated in the tropical forests of South America, Africa and Indonesia.
The reason for the isolation gas steel natural processes, in particular, for El niño – the phenomenon leading to temperature fluctuations of surface water in the Pacific ocean near the equator. For provoked a massive drought, particularly in South America and Africa, which recorded an increase of forest fires and accelerated decomposition of dead trees. These processes led to the increase of carbon dioxide emissions.
In General, the average value of carbon dioxide is constantly growing since the beginning of the 19th century, if then in the Earth’s atmosphere was 595 gigatons of carbon dioxide, but today the number has grown to 850 gigatons.
“This is the first large-scale climatic changes for which we have satellite observations of atmospheric composition, and characteristics of land and ocean – and all at the same time,” explains NASA scientist annmarie Eldering.
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