Low atmospheric CO 2 levels during the Little Ice Age due to cooling-induced terrestrial uptake

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 691-694

  Rubino, M ^a,h   Etheridge, D M ^a   Trudinger, C M ^a   Allison, C E ^a   Rayner, P J ^b   Enting, I ^a,b   Mulvaney, R ^c   Steele, L P ^a   Langenfelds, R L ^a   Sturges, W T ^d   Curran, M A J ^e,f   Smith, A M ^g  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^g AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^h SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL CARBON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84984906769     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2769     Document Type: Article

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