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Keeping Up With Carbon


Carbon is all around us.  This unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate. For complete transcript, click here.    Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate.

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Duration: 5.6 minutes
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Animation Number:10498
Completed:2009-10-08
Animators:Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC)
 Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
Video Editor:Maria Frostic (UMBC)
Interviewee:Stacey Bolland (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Narrator:Troy Cline (Raytheon/GSFC)
Producer:Maria Frostic (UMBC)
Scientists:Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)
 Scott Doney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
 Stacey Bolland (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Videographer:Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
Platform/Sensor/Data Set:SeaStar/SeaWiFS/Biosphere
Series:Narrated Movies
 Earth Science Week
Keywords:
DLESE >> Biology
SVS >> Carbon
SVS >> Carbon Cycle
SVS >> Carbon Ocean Cycle
SVS >> Carbon Sink
SVS >> Earth
SVS >> Earth Science
DLESE >> Ecology
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Ocean
SVS >> Phytoplankton
SVS >> Plankton
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Biosphere >> Ecological Dynamics >> Food-web Dynamics
SVS >> Edited Feature
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http://climate.nasa.gov/esw
 
 
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