Carbon cycle figures I made for a recent conference

5 months ago by TropicalDingdong to c/dataisbeautiful

I made these for a recent conference I was particularly happy with the way these came out.

And the fire ones:

naught101 4 points 5 months ago

Cool! What did you make these with?

I think in struggling with the first one: is atmosphere the total atmospheric pool divided by the earth's surface area? Should there be another loop for carbon that remains in the atmosphere year-to-year? It's not all absorbed, right?

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TropicalDingdong 6 points 5 months ago

I think in struggling with the first one: is atmosphere the total atmospheric pool divided by the earth’s surface area?

That's actually good feedback that you are struggling with; the answer is that the 19.1 is the gross amount of material coming out of the atmosphere. Everything here is in megagrams of carbon per hectare per year. So I could make that more clear.

I used a sankeyflow in python. So its all done in code and with very little revision it made high quality attractive sankeys. I didn't label them in python though, it was too fidgetty, so I did that in powerpoint.

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naught101 2 points 5 months ago

Ah, that makes sense, so the gap at the top left of "Atmosphere CO2" is basically the total annual biosphere draw-down by the biosphere..

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Sphks 3 points 5 months ago

Nice. The first one is interesting.

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TropicalDingdong 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah about half of the values in that figure, mostly the rate functions and some of the standing pools are from my own research.

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