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 CO2in the atmosphere has risen from 40%
to 45%. Reducing CO2redundancy
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 CO2concentrations are highly precise and
provide a reliable measure of increase of CO2in the atmosphere every year but they
do not lead to the location of sources and sinks. Studies about understanding
CO2cycles 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 sourcesi.e.,
whenever a sink is adjacent to a strong
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