Relationships between large-scale circulation patterns and carbon dioxide exchange by a deciduous forest

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Jingyong ^a   Wu, Lingyun ^a   Huang, Gang ^a   Notaro, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE EXCHANGE; COMPOSITE INDEX; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EAST PACIFIC; ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION PATTERNS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOCAL SURFACES; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDLATITUDES; MULTICOLLINEARITY; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RESPIRATION;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951887917     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014738     Document Type: Article

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