A feasible Global Carbon Cycle Observing System: A plan to decipher today's carbon cycle based on observations

Global Change Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-318

  Tans, Pieter P ^a   Bakwin, Peter S ^a,c   Guenther, Douglas W ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Carbon dioxide; Global change; Methane; Trace gas exchange; Trace gas monitoring

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE/BIOSPHERE/OCEAN TRANSFER; CARBON CYCLE; MONITORING; TRACE GAS;

EID: 0030483091     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.1996.tb00082.x     Document Type: Article

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