Terrestrial full carbon account for Russia: Revised uncertainty estimates and their role in a bottom-up/top-down accounting exercise

Climatic Change

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 159-174

  Gusti, M ^a,b   Jonas, M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b LVIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC INVERSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; BOTTOM-UP/TOP-DOWN; CARBON ACCOUNTING; CARBON BALANCE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; KYOTO PROTOCOL; TOPDOWN; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMISSION CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LAND COVER; LAND USE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77958452147     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9911-9     Document Type: Article

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