Greenhouse gas inventory estimates for India

Current Science

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 405-415

  Sharma, Subodh K ^a   Choudhury, Asim ^b   Sarkar, Pinaki ^b   Biswas, Subhashis ^b   Singh, Anil ^c   Dadhich, Pradeep K ^d   Singh, Ajay K ^b   Majumdar, Suman ^e   Bhatia, Arti ^f   Mohini, Madhu ^g   Kumar, Rajesh ^h   Jha, C S ⁱ   Murthy, M S R ⁱ   Ravindranath, N H ^j   Bhattacharya, Jayant K ^k   Karthik, M ^k   Bhattacharya, Sumana ^l   Chauhan, Rita ^m  

^a BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MINING AND FUEL RESEARCH   (India)

^c CENTRAL ROAD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (India)

^e Mantosh Sondhi Centre ^*  (India)

^f INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^g NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^h Forest Survey of India   (India)

ⁱ INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^j INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^k NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^l Formerly in NATCOM Cell   (India)

^m NATCOM Project Management Cell   (India)

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Author keywords

Anthropogenic origin; Emissions; Greenhouse gas inventory; IPCC; Source and sink

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053330012     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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