The Berkeley Atmospheric CO2 Observation Network: Initial evaluation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 13449-13463

  Shusterman, Alexis A ^a   Teige, Virginia E ^a   Turner, Alexander J ^b   Newman, Catherine ^a   Kim, Jinsol ^a   Cohen, Ronald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; MONITORING SYSTEM; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CALIFORNIA; OAKLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84994259645     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-13449-2016     Document Type: Article

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