Constraints on natural global atmospheric CO2 fluxes from 1860 to 2010 using a simplified explicit forward model

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hellevang, Helge ^a,b   Aagaard, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

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EID: 84948690331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17352     Document Type: Article

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