A national landfill methane budget for Sweden based on field measurements, and an evaluation of IPCC models

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 61 B, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 424-435

  Börjesson, Gunnar ^a   Samuelsson, Jerker ^b   Chanton, Jeffrey ^c   Adolfsson, Rolf ^d,e   Galle, Bo ^b   Svensson, Bo H ^f  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STATISTICS SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^e Swedish National Labour Market Board   (Sweden)

^f LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON ISOTOPE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FIELD METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFILL; LEAKAGE; METHANE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 61849101455     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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