NASA Visualizes a Year of Earth's Atmospheric CO2
NASA Goddard · Demo · 3 min · 2014 · YouTube title: NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
Why it's here
HN commenters use it as a vivid illustration of how CO2 is distributed and how vegetation absorbs it seasonally.
What it covers
A short NASA Goddard visualization from the GEOS-5 model showing a year of atmospheric carbon dioxide moving around the globe. It shows plumes from sources, hemispheric differences and seasonal swings as plants grow and die back.