Figure 3: Summary of the land biosphere fluxes based on the inversion ensemble.
From: Top–down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s
Prior and posterior land biosphere fluxes (PgC per year) for intervals 1996–2001 (a,d,g), 2002–2007 (b,e,h) and 2008–2012 (c,f,i). The land biosphere fluxes are calculated by subtracting CDIAC (CDI), EDGAR (EDG) and IEA FFC emission estimates, respectively, from the total posterior fluxes. The thick horizontal bar within the box shows the median, the box extent shows the upper and lower quartiles, and the whiskers extend to the furthest point within the range of the median plus/minus the interquartile range. The open circles indicate the prior (PRI) and the solid circles the posterior estimate from the individual inversions. For East Asia, JMA was excluded for 2008–2012, while for South Asia, NIES, CSIRO and CAO were excluded from the ensembles and are also shown as open circles. Inversions that only started in 2000 or 2001 were also excluded from the 1996–2001 ensembles. The grey dashed line indicates the level of a neutral land biosphere (that is, zero flux).
