%0 Journal Article %T Spatial Analysis Approach in Revealing the Global Sinks of Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide through “Leave One Out” Method %A Ali Madad %A Mossayeb Jamshid %A Ali Reza Gharagozlou %A Ali Reza Vafaei Nejad %A Ali Javidane %A Hamid Reza Ranjbar %J Journal of Geographic Information System %P 286-297 %@ 2151-1969 %D 2014 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/jgis.2014.64026 %X

Global warming and climate change are the most important ecological issues of our time. The most well-known factor in this phenomenon is the redundancy of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Over the past 50 years the amount of residual CO₂ in the atmosphere has risen from 40% to 45%. Reducing CO₂ redundancy requires precise knowledge of the gas sources and sinks throughout the atmosphere. Despite having a leading role in residual gas levels of atmosphere, the diagnosis and types of changes of absorbing carbon dioxide are very much in doubt. Atmospheric measurements of CO₂ concentrations are highly precise and provide a reliable measure of increase of CO₂ in the atmosphere every year but they do not lead to the location of sources and sinks. Studies about understanding CO₂ cycles began mainly around 1990 and most of these studies have been focused on non-spatial analysis. By ignoring the spatial effects, an important property such as closeness (adjacent) has been disregarded. The emission sources of gas are stronger than their sink sources i.e., whenever a sink is adjacent to a strong %K Carbon Dioxide Sink %K Spatial Autocorrelation %K Interpolation %K Jackknife %K Negev Desert %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48525