Water and carbon cycles in the Mississippi River basin: Potential implications for the Northern Hemisphere residual terrestrial sink

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Lee, Dongho ^a   Veizer, Ján ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; CO2 sink; Hydrologic cycle; Isotope mass balance relation; The Mississippi River basin

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042140348     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gb001984     Document Type: Article

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