Measurements and modeling of contemporary radiocarbon in the stratosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1399-1406

  Kanu, A M ^a,b   Comfort, L L ^a   Guilderson, T P ^b   Cameron Smith, P J ^b   Bergmann, D J ^b   Atlas, E L ^c   Schauffler, S ^d   Boering, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; carbon dioxide; cosmogenic radionuclides; radiocarbon; stratosphere; stratosphere troposphere exchange

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CARBON CYCLES; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION; HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS; MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING; RADIOCARBON; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FOSSIL FUEL; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUCLEAR WEAPON; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESIDENCE TIME; STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION;

EID: 84959378087     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066921     Document Type: Article

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