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Science Keywords > EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > CARBON FLUX

PREFERRED TERM

CARBON FLUX  

DEFINITION

  • Carbon flux refers to the direction and rate of transfer, or flows, of carbon between Earth’s carbon pools such as the oceans, atmosphere,land, other living things. Carbon fluxes can be natural exchanges, such as land-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere fluxes, or anthropogenic exchanges, such as urban carbon fluxes.

BROADER CONCEPT

ENTRY TERMS

  • Carbon Exchange
  • Carbon Transfer

CHANGE NOTE

  • 2019-09-11 12:39:09.0 [tstevens] Insert Concept add broader relation (CARBON FLUX [53fb0557-9f7f-4504-b0e8-adf329146c52,369161] - CLIMATE INDICATORS [23703b6b-ee15-4512-b5b2-f441547e2edf,364103]);
  • 2019-09-11 12:45:28.0 [tstevens] insert Definition (id: null text: Carbon flux refers to the direction and rate of transfer, or flows, of carbon between Earth’s carbon pools such as the oceans, atmosphere,land, other living things. Carbon fluxes can be natural exchanges, such as land-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere fluxes, or anthropogenic exchanges, such as urban carbon fluxes language code: en);
  • 2019-09-11 15:16:51.0 [tstevens] insert AltLabel (id: null category: null text: Carbon Transfer language code: en); insert AltLabel (id: null category: null text: Carbon Exchange language code: en); update Definition (Carbon flux refers to the direction and rate of transfer, or flows, of carbon between Earth’s carbon pools such as the oceans, atmosphere,land, other living things. Carbon fluxes can be natural exchanges, such as land-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere fluxes, or anthropogenic exchanges, such as urban carbon fluxes.);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/53fb0557-9f7f-4504-b0e8-adf329146c52

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