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Where does fossil fuel C end up, and how does that change with changing parameters?
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Terminology #45

Closed bpbond closed 2 years ago

bpbond commented 2 years ago

Rather than "mathematical definition of airborne fraction" we probably want to simply refer to AF. From Van Marle et al.:

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This is probably right. By definition, AF is the ratio between atmospheric C growth and emissions.

But., it's only an approximation of "how much of emissions remain in the atmosphere", which is how it's commonly used.