Researchers estimate amount of CO2 released into atmosphere by rivers and streams
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —A large international team of environmental scientists has combined their resources to make a reasonable estimate of the amount of CO2 that is transferred from inland waterways to the atmosphere. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes the resources and techniques they used to measure global inland water surface area, CO2 concentrations in surface waters and the velocity of gas transfer between the water and the atmosphere—all of which were used to make an estimate.