On the accuracy of the CO2 surface fluxes to be estimated from the GOSAT observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Chevallier, Frédéric ^a   Maksyutov, Shamil ^b   Bousquet, Philippe ^a   Bréon, François Marie ^a   Saito, Ryu ^b   Yoshida, Yukio ^b   Yokota, Tatsuya ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GREENHOUSE GASES OBSERVING SATELLITES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN BASINS; SURFACE FLUX; UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION; VALUE ADDED;

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE FLUX; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 72049128031     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040108     Document Type: Article

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