Systematic biases in large-scale estimates of wetland methane emissions arising from water table formulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Bohn, Theodore J ^a   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; WETLANDS;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; BOREAL WETLANDS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; METHANE EMISSIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; UNIFORM SCHEMES; WATER TABLE DEPTHS; WATER TABLES;

METHANE;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

EID: 78649519699     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045450     Document Type: Article

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