Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up

Campbell, Elliott; Kesselmeier, Jürgen; Yakir, Dan; Berry, Joe A.; Peylin, Philippe; Belviso, Sauveur; Vesala, Timo; Maseyk, Kadmiel; Seibt, Ulrike; Chen, Huilin; Whelan, Mary; Hilton, Timothy; Montzka, Stephen A.; Berkelhammer, Max; Lennartz, Sinikka; Kuai, Le; Wohlfahrt, Georg; Wang, Yuting; Blake, Nicola; Blake, Donald R.; Stinecipher, James; Baker, Ian; Sitch, Stephen

doi:10.1029/2017EO075313

Title: Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up

Abstract

Current climate models disagree on how much carbon dioxide land ecosystems take up for photosynthesis. Tracking the stronger carbonyl sulfide signal could help.

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Campbell, Elliott ^[1]; Kesselmeier, Jürgen ^[2]; Yakir, Dan ^[3]; Berry, Joe A. ^[4]; Peylin, Philippe ^[5]; Belviso, Sauveur ^[5]; Vesala, Timo ^[6]; Maseyk, Kadmiel ^[7]; Seibt, Ulrike ^[8]; Chen, Huilin ^[9]; Whelan, Mary ^[10]; Hilton, Timothy ^[11]; Montzka, Stephen A. ^[12]; Berkelhammer, Max ^[13]; Lennartz, Sinikka ^[14]; Kuai, Le ^[8]; Wohlfahrt, Georg ^[15]; Wang, Yuting ^[16]; Blake, Nicola ^[17]; Blake, Donald R. ^[17] more »

Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Dept. of Environmental Studies
Max Planck Society, Mainz (Germany). Max Planck Inst. for Chemistry
Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
Carnegie Inst. of Science, Stanford, CA (United States)
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Univ. of Helsinki (Finland)
Open Univ., Milton Keynes (United Kingdom)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)
Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States); Carnegie Inst. for Science, Merced, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States)
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel (Germany)
Univ. of Innsbruck (Austria)
Univ. of Bremen (Germany)
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
Univ. of Exeter (United Kingdom)

Publication Date:: Wed Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

OSTI Identifier:: 1398772

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011999

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union (Online); Journal Volume: 98; Journal ID: ISSN 2324-9250

Publisher:: American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; climate change; carbon dioxide; carbon cycle; gross primary production; photosynthesis

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                    Campbell, Elliott, Kesselmeier, Jürgen, Yakir, Dan, Berry, Joe A., Peylin, Philippe, Belviso, Sauveur, Vesala, Timo, Maseyk, Kadmiel, Seibt, Ulrike, Chen, Huilin, Whelan, Mary, Hilton, Timothy, Montzka, Stephen A., Berkelhammer, Max, Lennartz, Sinikka, Kuai, Le, Wohlfahrt, Georg, Wang, Yuting, Blake, Nicola, Blake, Donald R., Stinecipher, James, Baker, Ian, and Sitch, Stephen. Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
Web.  doi:10.1029/2017EO075313.

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                    Campbell, Elliott, Kesselmeier, Jürgen, Yakir, Dan, Berry, Joe A., Peylin, Philippe, Belviso, Sauveur, Vesala, Timo, Maseyk, Kadmiel, Seibt, Ulrike, Chen, Huilin, Whelan, Mary, Hilton, Timothy, Montzka, Stephen A., Berkelhammer, Max, Lennartz, Sinikka, Kuai, Le, Wohlfahrt, Georg, Wang, Yuting, Blake, Nicola, Blake, Donald R., Stinecipher, James, Baker, Ian, & Sitch, Stephen. Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO075313

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                    Campbell, Elliott, Kesselmeier, Jürgen, Yakir, Dan, Berry, Joe A., Peylin, Philippe, Belviso, Sauveur, Vesala, Timo, Maseyk, Kadmiel, Seibt, Ulrike, Chen, Huilin, Whelan, Mary, Hilton, Timothy, Montzka, Stephen A., Berkelhammer, Max, Lennartz, Sinikka, Kuai, Le, Wohlfahrt, Georg, Wang, Yuting, Blake, Nicola, Blake, Donald R., Stinecipher, James, Baker, Ian, and Sitch, Stephen. Wed .  
"Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO075313.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1398772.

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@article{osti_1398772,

  title        = {Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up},

  author       = {Campbell, Elliott and Kesselmeier, Jürgen and Yakir, Dan and Berry, Joe A. and Peylin, Philippe and Belviso, Sauveur and Vesala, Timo and Maseyk, Kadmiel and Seibt, Ulrike and Chen, Huilin and Whelan, Mary and Hilton, Timothy and Montzka, Stephen A. and Berkelhammer, Max and Lennartz, Sinikka and Kuai, Le and Wohlfahrt, Georg and Wang, Yuting and Blake, Nicola and Blake, Donald R. and Stinecipher, James and Baker, Ian and Sitch, Stephen},

  abstractNote = {Current climate models disagree on how much carbon dioxide land ecosystems take up for photosynthesis. Tracking the stronger carbonyl sulfide signal could help.},

  doi          = {10.1029/2017EO075313},

  journal      = {Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union (Online)},

  number       = ,

  volume       = 98,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017},

  month        = {Wed Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017}

}

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