Saturday, July 8, 2017

THE  DAILY  OCS - THAT'S NOT A  TYPO,  ITS  A  MOLECULE

  A  BETTER  PROXY  FOR  PHOTOSYNTHETIC CO2 UPTAKE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED
 This alpine study area near Boulder, Colo., where the carbonyl sulfide signal was first detected 10 years ago, is part of the NOAA air monitoring network. Credit: B. Bowman
By J. Elliott Campbell et al.        5 July 2017
Current climate models disagree on how much carbon dioxide land ecosystems take up for photosynthesis. Tracking the stronger carbonyl sulfide signal could help.