Inventories and scenarios of nitrous oxide emissions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Davidson, Eric A ^a   Kanter, David ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Earth Institute Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; greenhouse gases; N2< inf>O; nitrogen cycle; ozone depleting substance; RCPs; representative concentration pathways

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOFUELS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GASES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN CYCLES; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES; RCPS; REPRESENTATIVE CONCENTRATION PATHWAYS;

GAS EMISSIONS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEFORESTATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE; OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928623477     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/105012     Document Type: Article

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