TY - JOUR
T1 - An international effort to quantify regional carbon fluxes
AU - Canadell, Josep G.
AU - Ciais, Philippe
AU - Gurney, Kevin
AU - Le Quéré, Corinne
AU - Piao, Shilong
AU - Raupach, Michael R.
AU - Sabine, Christopher L.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The international carbon cycle research community is currently coordinating the largest, most comprehensive assessment it has ever undertaken: the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes (RECCAP; http://www.globalcarbonproject. org/reccap). The objective is to establish the mean carbon balance and change over the period 1990-2009 for all subcontinents and ocean basins. The global coverage will provide, for the first time, opportunities to link regional budgets with the global carbon budget. Regional details on or insights into processes driving fluxes have not, to date, been incorporated into efforts addressing the global carbon budget [Canadell et al., 2007; Le Quéré et al., 2009]. The consistency check between the sum of regional fluxes and the global budget will be a unique measure of the level of confidence there is in scaling carbon budgets up and down.
AB - The international carbon cycle research community is currently coordinating the largest, most comprehensive assessment it has ever undertaken: the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes (RECCAP; http://www.globalcarbonproject. org/reccap). The objective is to establish the mean carbon balance and change over the period 1990-2009 for all subcontinents and ocean basins. The global coverage will provide, for the first time, opportunities to link regional budgets with the global carbon budget. Regional details on or insights into processes driving fluxes have not, to date, been incorporated into efforts addressing the global carbon budget [Canadell et al., 2007; Le Quéré et al., 2009]. The consistency check between the sum of regional fluxes and the global budget will be a unique measure of the level of confidence there is in scaling carbon budgets up and down.
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U2 - 10.1029/2011EO100001
DO - 10.1029/2011EO100001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79952928107
SN - 0096-3941
VL - 92
SP - 81
EP - 82
JO - Eos
JF - Eos
IS - 10
ER -