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Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-47-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-47-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
Research article
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02 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 02 Jan 2017

Atmospheric CO2 observations and models suggest strong carbon uptake by forests in New Zealand

Kay Steinkamp, Sara E. Mikaloff Fletcher, Gordon Brailsford, Dan Smale, Stuart Moore, Elizabeth D. Keller, W. Troy Baisden, Hitoshi Mukai, and Britton B. Stephens

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The exchange of carbon dioxide between the land biosphere in New Zealand and the atmosphere is estimated by combining measurements of the concentration of the gas in the air with model simulations of atmospheric circulation. The results indicate that over the study period of 2011–2013, New Zealand is a larger net sink for CO2 than estimated in the National Inventory Report. Regions in the western South Island, especially those covered predominantly by forests, contribute the most to this signal.
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