Terrestrial carbon sink in the Northern Hemisphere estimated from the atmospheric CO2 difference between Mauna Loa and the South Pole since 1959

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 863-870

  Fan, Song Miao ^a   Blaine, Tegan L ^a   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINK; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 0033370185     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v51i5.16499     Document Type: Article

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