Global net carbon exchange and intra-annual atmospheric CO2 concentrations predicted by an ecosystem process model and three-dimensional atmospheric transport model

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 431-456

  Hunt, E Raymond ^a,b   Piper, Stephen C ^c   Nemani, Ramakrishna ^a   Keeling, Charles D ^c   Otto, Ralf D ^c,d   Running, Steven W ^a  

^a School of Forestry   (United States)

^b Department of Botany   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOME-BGC; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EXCHANGE; MODEL; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 0030440243     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GB01691     Document Type: Article

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