A decadal inversion of CO2 using the Global Eulerian–Lagrangian Coupled Atmospheric model (GELCA): sensitivity to the ground-based observation network

T. Shirai; M. Ishizawa; R. Zhuravlev; A. Ganshin; D. Belikov; M. Saito; T. Oda; V. Valsala; A.J. Gomez-Pelaez; R. Langenfelds; S. Maksyutov

doi:10.1080/16000889.2017.1291158

A decadal inversion of CO2 using the Global Eulerian–Lagrangian Coupled Atmospheric model (GELCA): sensitivity to the ground-based observation network

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By: T. Shirai, M. Ishizawa, R. Zhuravlev, A. Ganshin, D. Belikov, M. Saito, T. Oda, V. Valsala, A.J. Gomez-Pelaez, R. Langenfelds and S. Maksyutov

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