The global nitrous oxide budget: A reassessment

Nitrous Oxide and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 63-84

  Smith, Keith ^a   Crutzen, Paul ^b   Mosier, Arvin ^c   Winiwarter, Wilfried ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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