Reviews and syntheses: Systematic Earth observations for use in terrestrial carbon cycle data assimilation systems

Biogeosciences

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2017, Pages 3401-3429

  Scholze, Marko ^a   Buchwitz, Michael ^b   Dorigo, Wouter ^c   Guanter, Luis ^d   Quegan, Shaun ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BENCHMARKING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH; GREENHOUSE GAS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATORY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85025133727     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-3401-2017     Document Type: Review

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