Estimating the surface area of small rivers in the southwestern amazon and their role in CO2 outgassing

Earth Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  De Fátima F L Rasera, Maria ^a   Victoria R Ballester, Maria ^a   Krusche, Alex V ^a   Salimon, Cleber ^b   Montebelo, Letícia A ^a   Alin, Simone R ^c   Victoria, Reynaldo L ^a   Richey, Jeffrey E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ACRE   (Brazil)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles and modeling; Carbon cycling; Hydrologic scaling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLING; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HYDROLOGIC SCALING; INORGANIC CARBON; OUTGASSING RATE;

AIR; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

EID: 84879308911     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008EI257.1     Document Type: Article

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