Spatial distribution of carbon sources and sinks in Canada's forests

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 622-641

  Chen, Jing M ^a,c   Ju, Weimin ^a   Cihlar, Josef ^b   Price, David ^e   Liu, Jane ^a,b   Chen, Wenjun ^b   Pan, Jianjun ^d   Black, Andy ^f   Barr, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BOREAL FOREST; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON FLUX; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0038583510     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0889.2003.00036.x     Document Type: Article

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