Atmospheric inversions for estimating CO2 fluxes: Methods and perspectives

Climatic Change

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 69-92

  Ciais, P ^a   Rayner, P ^a   Chevallier, F ^a   Bousquet, P ^a   Logan, M ^a   Peylin, P ^a,b   Ramonet, M ^a  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC INVERSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS; GROUND-BASED NETWORK; INVERSE METHODS; INVERSION RESULTS; NUMERICAL TRANSPORT; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE FLUX; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TOPDOWN; TRACE-GASES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOLOGY; FOSSIL FUELS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRACE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL FUEL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACE GAS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049231309     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9909-3     Document Type: Article

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