The Global Carbon Cycle David Archer is an English-language textbook that offers a clear introduction to how the global carbon cycle works. This book is intended for higher-education students who want to gain insight into the role of the carbon cycle within Earth’s climate system.
It covers the global carbon cycle on three timescales: millions of years, hundreds of thousands of years, and human decades. Archer explains how the carbon cycle influences climate through various mechanisms and discusses, among other things, feedback processes, the uptake of fossil-fuel carbon by oceans and the land biosphere, and possible future amplifications of climate change due to thawing permafrost and methane hydrate. The book also includes a glossary, explanations of comparisons, and suggestions for further study.
This title is thematically aligned with fields such as Meteorology, Climate Change, and Earth Sciences and is part of the Princeton Primers in Climate series.