Towards constraints on fossil fuel emissions from total column carbon dioxide

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4349-4357

  Keppel Aleks, G ^a,b   Wennberg, P O ^a   O'Dell, C W ^c   Wunch, D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; FOSSIL FUEL; GOSAT; POLICY APPROACH; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

EID: 84885641886     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-4349-2013     Document Type: Article

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