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Carbon dioxide observations at Cape Rama, India for the period 1993–2002: implications for constraining Indian emissions [1]

India has the second largest population, one of fastest growing economies and is ranked third in greenhouse gas emissions by fossil-fuel burning in the world. However, there has been little monitoring of atmospheric CO2 concentration over India to date. Here we reanalyse pioneering atmospheric CO2 observations at Cape Rama, India (CRI) during the period from February 1993 to October 2002, using three forward transport models to simulate atmospheric CO2 and separate tracers of terrestrial and oceanic fluxes, and fossil-fuel emissions.

Publication Date: 
25/12/2011
Yogesh K. Tiwari [2], Prabir K. Patra [3], Frédéric Chevallie & et al [4]
Current Science [5]
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Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [6], Green House Gases [7], India [8], Arabian Sea [9], Goa [10], South Asia [11], Climate Science [12]
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