The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

This quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2018) is reported.


Value:		(9.5 ± 2.2) × 10¹² kg CO₂ / yr see this value in other units This is equivalent to... (2.6 ± 0.6) × 10¹² kg C / yr 9.5 ± 2.2 Pg CO₂ / yr 2.6 ± 0.6 Pg C / yr
HuID:		99089
Relevant Year(s):		2018
Summary:		Mass of carbon dioxide (CO₂) that is removed from the atmosphere every year by the oceans. The value reported is for 2018, and can be found in Table 6 of Friedlingstein et al (2019).
Method:		The uncertainty value represents one standard deviation. The authors estimate that the uncertainty in the ocean CO₂ sink is about ± 0.5 GtC yr⁻¹ from the combined uncertainty of the mean flux based on observations of ±0.4 GtC yr⁻¹ and the standard deviation across global ocean biogeochemistry models of up to ±0.4 GtC yr⁻¹.
Source:		Friedlingstein, P., Jones, M. W., O'Sullivan, M. et al. Global Carbon Budget 2019. Earth System Science Data (2019)
Dataset:		Global carbon budget by year (global_carbon_budget_processed.csv) global resolution
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Original Data License:		CC-BY 4.0
Added By:		ilopezgo