Anthropogenic and climatic influences on carbon fluxes from eastern North America to the Atlantic Ocean: A process-based modeling study

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 752-772

  Tian, Hanqin ^a   Yang, Qichun ^a   Najjar, Raymond G ^b   Ren, Wei ^a   Friedrichs, Marjorie A M ^c   Hopkinson, Charles S ^d   Pan, Shufen ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; climate variability; eastern North America; land use; riverine carbon flux

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLUX MEASUREMENT; NITROGEN; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 85028230822     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JG002760     Document Type: Article

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