The animations highlight emissions from different human and natural sources, with the main contribution coming from the burning of fossil fuels.
Earth is being choked by a thick, curling fog of carbon dioxide that coats the planet as the months go by, a series of NASA videos shows. The newly released animations visualize the astonishing scale of human carbon dioxide emissions over a year by coloring the invisible greenhouse gas.
The model also shows where CO2 is absorbed by marine and land ecosystems, such as rainforests, via photosynthesis . Collectively, these natural ecosystems soak up half of human emissions every year and play a vital role in mitigating climate change by periodically acting as carbon"sinks.""Though the land and oceans are each carbon sinks in a global sense, individual locations can be sources at different times," scientists noted in a NASA statement.
"Some interesting features include fossil fuel emissions from the northeastern urban corridor that extends from Washington D.C. to Boston in the United States," scientists wrote in the statement.
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