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Articles | Volume 25, issue 14
Articles | Volume 25, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7863-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7863-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 14
Research article
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24 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 24 Jul 2025

Limitations in the use of atmospheric CO2 observations to directly infer changes in the length of the biospheric carbon uptake period

Theertha Kariyathan, Ana Bastos, Markus Reichstein, Wouter Peters, and Julia Marshall

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The carbon uptake period (CUP) is the time period when land absorbs more CO2 than it emits. While atmospheric CO2 mole fraction measurements can be used to assess CUP changes, atmospheric transport and asynchronous timing across regions reduce the accuracy of the estimates. Forward model experiments show that only ~ 50 % of prescribed shifts in CUP timing applied to surface fluxes (ΔCUPNEE) are captured in simulated CO2 mole fraction data at monitoring sites like the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory.
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