Regional-scale geostatistical inverse modeling of North American CO 2 fluxes: A synthetic data study

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 6151-6167

  Gourdji, S M ^a   Hirsch, A I ^b   Mueller, K L ^a   Yadav, V ^a   Andrews, A E ^c   Michalak, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DIURNAL VARIATION; GEOSTATISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77954491285     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-6151-2010     Document Type: Article

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