Earth  ID: 3307

Missing Carbon: CO2 Growth in the last 400,000 Years

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on December 31, 2005
The animation shows a graph of carbon dioxide (on the y-axis) versus time (on the x-axis). First data is shown from about the last 400,000 years. Next, this graph slides to the left and a new graph slides on showing carbon dioxide from the last 1000 years. NOTE: the y-axis scale remains the same. Finally, a graph showing carbon dioxide from 1980 to 2005 is shown. The industrial revolution is shown as a blue line. Lake Vostok ice cores provide data from about 400,000 BC to about 4000 BC; Law Dome ice cores provide data from 1010 AD to 1975 AD; Mauna Loa observations provide data from 1980 to 2005.
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Carbon Dioxide graphs from the last 400,000; 1000; and 25 year ranges
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Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 400,000 years
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Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 1000 years (includes last 400,000 year graph)
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Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 25 year (includes last 400,000 and 1000 year graphs)

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Jim Collatz (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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Data Used:
Carbon Dioxide from Lake Vostok Ice Core
411,005 BC to 3674 BC
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Carbon Dioxide from Lawdome Ice Core
1010 AD to 1975 AD
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Carbon Dioxide from Mauna Loa Measurements
1980 to 2005
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This item is part of this series:
Missing Carbon

Goddard TV Tape:
G2007-001HD -- NASA's HD Climate Change Resource Tape

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Chemistry/Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds >> Carbon Dioxide
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Paleoclimate >> Ice Core Records >> Carbon Dioxide
SVS >> Copenhagen
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0