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Residence Time vs. Adjustment Time of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere

Published:2023-02-20 Issue:2 Volume:25 Page:384
ISSN:1099-4300
Container-title:Entropy
language:en
Short-container-title:Entropy

Author:

Stallinga Peter¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. DEEI, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal

2. Ossónoba Philosophical Society, 8000-000 Faro, Portugal

Abstract

We study the concepts of residence time vs. adjustment time time for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The system is analyzed with a two-box first-order model. Using this model, we reach three important conclusions: (1) The adjustment time is never larger than the residence time and can, thus, not be longer than about 5 years. (2) The idea of the atmosphere being stable at 280 ppm in pre-industrial times is untenable. (3) Nearly 90% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide has already been removed from the atmosphere.

Funder

FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia—Portugal, research center “CEOT”

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/2/384/pdf

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