# The Azimuth Project Blog - carbon cycle box models (part 2) (changes)

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### Oceans part in the carbon cycle

In the first blog on the carbon cycle and box models. I looked at the terminology and man-made fossil fuel carbon emission contributions through global one-box models.

Here I’ll continue to and scrutinize theoceans and the atmosphere with two-box and three-box three- models fo the ocean in particular and see what biogeochemical process that are involved that complicates things like estimating oceanic response times.box models for the ocean in particular and see what bio-geochemical process that are involved that complicates things like estimating oceanic response times.

#### Scrutinizing the oceans

The pre-industrial ocean was an emitter of $CO_2$ or a source but during the industrial times it has transformed into a sink for of approximately 2 Gt Carbon (GtC) per year.

##### Measured Carbon in the oceans today

So here we see how its evolved over time in the form of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC) which is sometimes referred to total CO2 - measured at Hawaii Ocean Time-series Bottle Data and visualized with the Ocean Data Viewer (ODV,see references):

#### References

• Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter, Penguin, London, 2005.

• David Archer, The Global Carbon Cycle, Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011.