Thursday, February 10, 2011

Global CO2 plumes


Ever wonder where our oxygen comes from in the winter? When vegetation dies back in the Northern Hemisphere, we have to subsist on old air until the summer. In this image, you can see the plume of carbon dioxide downwind of large human population centers.

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003562/index.html

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