Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 831-836

  Le Quéré, Corinne ^a,b   Raupach, Michael R ^c   Canadell, Josep G ^c   Marland, Gregg ^d   Bopp, Laurent ^e   Ciais, Philippe ^e   Conway, Thomas J ^f   Doney, Scott C ^g   Feely, Richard A ^h   Foster, Pru ⁱ   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^e,i   Gurney, Kevin ^j   Houghton, Richard A ^k   House, Joanna I ⁱ   Huntingford, Chris ^l   Levy, Peter E ^l   Lomas, Mark R ^m   Majkut, Joseph ⁿ   Metzl, Nicolas ^o   Ometto, Jean P ^p   Peters, Glen P ^q   Prentice, I Colin ⁱ   Randerson, James T ^r   Running, Steven W ^s   Sarmiento, Jorge L ⁿ   Schuster, Ute ^a   Sitch, Stephen ^t   Takahashi, Taro ^u   Viovy, Nicolas ^e   Van Der Werf, Guido R ^v   Woodward, F Ian ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^h Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^j PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^l CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^p INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^q CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^u Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^v VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 71249124084     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo689     Document Type: Article

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