Apr 11, 2018 · The residence time for an element in a reservoir can be calculated by the reservoir size at steady state divided by the inflow or outflow rate. Given the following diagram, I need to calculate the ...

Oct 18, 2016 · Cheers daniel.neumann, in the first figure they are confusing residence time (the average time a molecule of CO2 remains in the atmosphere) and the adjustment time (the timescale on which …

Jun 8, 2016 · The average residence time of water in the oceans is around 3,000 years. This is because the world's anual precipitation is about 5e14 m3/yr, while the global ocean volume is 1.4e18 m3 [. If …

Aug 14, 2019 · The residence time of air in the stratosphere is 1-2 years, so that CO2 concentrations in the stratosphere represent those found in the troposphere 1-2 years before.

Jan 13, 2020 · But if you really do want to think of it as the time for water vapor to generate its greenhouse effect matching its latent heat transfer, it looks like it must be on the order of about 3 …

Nov 11, 2017 · You could say that metals and aerosols reside in the atmosphere but I'm struggling to call that "atmospheric lifetime", which I've only heard in reference to gases. The residence time of …

Apr 1, 2021 · The natural flux of carbon into the atmosphere is about 90 Gt per year. Humans are adding additional carbon dioxide each by burning fossil fuels. Some of it is absorbed by the oceans. The …

This is a question about residence time for another planet with the following information below: When we arrive on the second habitable planet, we discover that it is also exactly like Earth, except that each …

Jun 21, 2015 · I am trying to figure out the difference between a carbon sink and a carbon reservoir. The definition for a carbon sink from Wikipedia is carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that

Oct 9, 2017 · The exact time that will take will depend on the elevation, as the abundance of ozone as well as the radicals can vary orders of magnitude trough the stratosphere.