Links between atmospheric carbon dioxide, the land carbon reservoir and climate over the past millennium

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 383-387

  Bauska, Thomas K ^a   Joos, Fortunat ^b   Mix, Alan C ^a   Roth, Raphael ^b   Ahn, Jinho ^c   Brook, Edward J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DECONVOLUTION; LAND USE CHANGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION; TIMESCALE;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84928601240     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2422     Document Type: Article

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