Monsoon ecosystems control on atmospheric CO2 interannual variability: Inferred from a significant positive correlation between year-to-year changes in land precipitation and atmospheric CO2 growth rate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1671-1674

  Yang, Xin ^a   Wang, Mingxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; SOLAR RADIATION;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION CYCLES; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND PRECIPITATION; MOONSON ECOSYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE; TERRESTRIAL NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 0034352885     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL006073     Document Type: Article

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