Regional atmospheric CO2 inversion reveals seasonal and geographic differences in Amazon net biome exchange

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3427-3443

  Alden, Caroline B ^a   Miller, John B ^b,c   Gatti, Luciana V ^d   Gloor, Manuel M ^e   Guan, Kaiyu ^a   Michalak, Anna M ^f   van der Laan Luijkx, Ingrid T ^g   Touma, Danielle ^a   Andrews, Arlyn ^b   Basso, Luana S ^d   Correia, Caio S C ^d   Domingues, Lucas G ^d   Joiner, Joanna ^h   Krol, Maarten C ^g,i,j   Lyapustin, Alexei I ^h   Peters, Wouter ^g,k   Shiga, Yoichi P ^f,l   Thoning, Kirk ^b   van der Velde, Ivar R ^k   van Leeuwen, Thijs T ^i,j   Yadav, Vineet ^m   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^l Stanford University   (United States)

^m CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Amazon; climate extremes; CO 2; inverse model; terrestrial biosphere; tropical carbon exchange

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOME; BIOSPHERE; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; SEASON;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; SEASONS;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 85027943390     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13305     Document Type: Article

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