The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) Tracks 2-3 Peta-Gram Increase in Carbon Release to the Atmosphere During the 2014-2016 El Nino

The powerful El Niño event of 2015-2016 - the third most intense since the 1950s - has exerted a large impact on the Earth's natural climate system. The column-averaged CO2 dry-air mole fraction (XCO2) observations from satellites and ground based networks are analyzed together with in situ obs...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2017-10, Vol.7 (1), p.13567-12, Article 13567
Main Authors: Patra, Prabir K, Crisp, David, Kaiser, Joohannes W, Wunch, Debra, Saeki, Tazu, Ichii, Kazuhito, Sekiya, Takashi, Wennberg, Paul O, Feist, Dietrich G, Pollard, David F, Griffith, David W T, Velazco, Voltaire A, Maziere, M De, Sha, Mahesh K, Roehl, Coleen M, Chatterjee, Abhishek, Ishijima, Kentaro
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Language:English
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Anthropogenic factors
Atmosphere
Atmospheric chemistry
Burning
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide emissions
Climate system
Drought
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
El Nino
Fossil fuels
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
Satellites
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
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