Our calculation of CO2 emission from Changjiang revealed an important pathway for carbon transport from the river to atmosphere.
It is generally accepted that CO2 exchange between rivers and atmosphere is an important but still uncertain factor in the global carbon cycle [5, 6].
Usually, this river of air in our upper atmosphere flows in a fairly straight line from the east coast of America, east across the Atlantic.
Lockwood and his team suggest that the sun is affecting Northern Europe by causing an increase in "blocking" of the northern jet stream, a fast-flowing river of air moving through the atmosphere.
It has it all: three bedrooms, a local school, a goddamn river, a "village" atmosphere (what do people mean by "village", exactly? My best guess is "delicatessen" plus "none of those teenagers who hang around in bus shelters").
Mt C.yr-1 20.6 17.6 20.4 20.3 -: means CO2 is transferred from river into the atmosphere.
Thus by analyzing water for its tritium content, it is possible to elucidate details of water circulation among oceans, the atmosphere, rivers, and lakes.
The ocean is a great store of chemicals that receives inputs from rivers and the atmosphere and, on average, loses equal amounts to sedimentary deposits on the ocean floor.
Warmer air is able to hold more water vapour which under certain weather conditions can form vast plumes or "rivers" in the atmosphere that can result in continual, heavy downpours over one spot of high ground, the scientists said.
As many large rivers around the world are currently facing the increasing anthropogenic impacts similar to Changjiang, re-evaluation of CO2 flux between rivers and the atmosphere has become an increasingly important issue in the study of global climate change.
