Impacts of land cover and climate data selection on understanding terrestrial carbon dynamics and the CO 2 airborne fraction

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2027-2036

  Poulter, B ^a,b   Frank, D C ^a,c   Hodson, E L ^a   Zimmermann, N E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; FOSSIL FUEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND COVER; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 79961065137     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-2027-2011     Document Type: Article

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