Table 3.8.

Global budget for carbonyl sulfide (COS) in the atmosphere.

Source or sink	COS (1012 g S /yr)	References
Sources
Oceans	0.04a	Kettle et al., 2002
Anoxic soils	0.03	Kettle et al., 2002
Biomass burning	0.31–0.60	Andreae, 2019
		Stinecipher et al., 2019
Industrial	0.26	Campbell et al., 2015
Volcanoes	0.02	Chin and Davis, 1993
Oxidation of natural CS2	0.14b	Kettle et al., 2002
		Campbell et al., 2015
Oxidation of DMS	0.15	Kettle et al., 2002
Total sources	0.95–1.25
Sinks
Vegetation uptake	0.24–0.74	Kettle et al., 2002
		Berry et al., 2013
Soil uptake (oxic)	0.13	Kettle et al., 2002
Oxidation by OH	0.09	Kettle et al., 2002
Stratospheric photolysis	0.02	Kettle et al., 2002
Total sinks	0.48–0.98

^anet.

^bassumes that 44% of the global annual CS2 source is industrial.