Observational constraints on the global atmospheric CO2 budget

Science

Volumn 247, Issue 4949, 1990, Pages 1431-1438

  Tans, Pieter P ^a   Fung, Inez Y ^b   Takahashi, Taro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL FUEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SURFACE OCEAN WATER; TRANSPORT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL; SEA WATER;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0025199424     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.247.4949.1431     Document Type: Article

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66. We thank T. Conway, K. Masarie, K. Thoning, and L. Waterman for obtaining the atmospheric data of the NOAA/GMCC flask network, and many people at the field sites for collecting the air samples over the years. J. John executed 3-D model runs and, together with J. Jonas and P. Palmer, provided support for the color graphics. Assistance by D. Chipman, J. Goddard, S. Sutherland, and E. A. Takahashi is appreciated. R. Gammon and E. Garvey contributed their data to this study. This work has been supported by the Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change division of NOAA, the National Science Foundation, Martin Marietta's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis and Research program for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-84OR21400, and the EXXON Research and Engineering Company.