Seven years of recent European net terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange constrained by atmospheric observations

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1317-1337

  Peters, W ^a,b   Krol, M C ^a   van der Werf, G R ^c   Houweling, S ^d   Jones, C D ^e   Hughes, J ^e   Schaefer, K ^b   Masarie, K A ^f   Jacobson, A R ^b,f   Miller, J B ^b,f   Cho, C H ^g   Ramonet, M ^h   Schmidt, M ^h   Ciattaglia, L ⁱ   Apadula, F ^j   Heltai, D ^j   Meinhardt, F ^k   di Sarra, A G ^l   Piacentino, S ^l   Sferlazzo, D ^l   Aalto, T ^m   Hatakka, J ^m   StroM J ^n,o   Haszpra, L ^p   Meijer, H A J ^q   van Der Laan, S ^q   Neubert, R E M ^q   Jordan, A ^r   Rodo X ^s   Morgui J A ^s   Vermeulen, A T ^t   Popa, E ^t   Rozanski, K ^u   Zimnoch, M ^u   Manning, A C ^v   Leuenberger, M ^w   Uglietti, C ^w   Dolman, A J ^c   Ciais, P ^h   Heimann, M ^r   Tans, P ^f   more..

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

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

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^j CESI RICERCA   (Italy)

^k Messstelle Schauinsland ^*  (Germany)

^l ENEA   (Italy)

^m FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

ⁿ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^o NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^p HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

^q UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^r MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^s Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences   (Spain)

^t TNO   (Netherlands)

^u AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^v UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^w UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

Atmospheric CO2; Carbon exchange; Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

EUROPE;

INSECTIVORA;

EID: 77950206324     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02078.x     Document Type: Article

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