A New Background Method for Greenhouse Gases Flux Calculation Based in Back-Trajectories Over the Amazon
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
AMBaM Validation
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Sampling
3.2. Method Development
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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2010 fluxes (gC m d) | Scaled 2010 flux (Pg C yr) | ||||
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2011 fluxes (gC m d) | Scaled 2011 flux (Pg C yr) | ||||
Results using SF6-based BKG (Gatti et al., 2014) | |||||
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Results using AMBaM BKG | |||||
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Gatti Domingues, L.; Vanni Gatti, L.; Aquino, A.; Sánchez, A.; Correia, C.; Gloor, M.; Peters, W.; Miller, J.; Turnbull, J.; Santana, R.; et al. A New Background Method for Greenhouse Gases Flux Calculation Based in Back-Trajectories Over the Amazon. Atmosphere 2020, 11, 734. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070734
Gatti Domingues L, Vanni Gatti L, Aquino A, Sánchez A, Correia C, Gloor M, Peters W, Miller J, Turnbull J, Santana R, et al. A New Background Method for Greenhouse Gases Flux Calculation Based in Back-Trajectories Over the Amazon. Atmosphere. 2020; 11(7):734. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070734
Chicago/Turabian StyleGatti Domingues, Lucas, Luciana Vanni Gatti, Afonso Aquino, Alber Sánchez, Caio Correia, Manuel Gloor, Wouter Peters, John Miller, Jocelyn Turnbull, Ricardo Santana, and et al. 2020. "A New Background Method for Greenhouse Gases Flux Calculation Based in Back-Trajectories Over the Amazon" Atmosphere 11, no. 7: 734. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070734