Implications for CO2 emissions and sinks changes in western China during 1995–2008 from atmospheric CO2 at Waliguan

F. Zhang; L. X. Zhou

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19576

Implications for CO2 emissions and sinks changes in western China during 1995–2008 from atmospheric CO2 at Waliguan

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 65 (2013): Issue 1

By: F. Zhang and L. X. Zhou

Open Access

|Jan 2013

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