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Implication of weekly and diurnal 14C calibration on hourly estimates of CO-based fossil fuel CO2 at a moderately polluted site in southwestern Germany

  1. FELIX R. VOGEL1,*,
  2. SAMUEL HAMMER1,
  3. AXEL STEINHOF2,
  4. BERND KROMER1,3,
  5. INGEBORG LEVIN1

Article first published online: 2 JUL 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00477.x

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Tellus B

Special Issue: SPECIAL ISSUE WITH MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED AT THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CARBON DIOXIDE CONFERENCE, ICDC8, IN JENA, GERMANY 13-19 SEPTEMBER 2009

Volume 62, Issue 5, pages 512–520, November 2010

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VOGEL, F. R., HAMMER, S., STEINHOF, A., KROMER, B. and LEVIN, I. (2010), Implication of weekly and diurnal 14C calibration on hourly estimates of CO-based fossil fuel CO2 at a moderately polluted site in southwestern Germany. Tellus B, 62: 512–520. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00477.x

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  1. 1

    Institut für Umweltphysik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, INF 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

  2. 2

    Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany

  3. 3

    Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, INF 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

* Corresponding author. e-mail: Felix.Vogel@iup.uni-heidelberg.de

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  1. Issue published online: 2 JUL 2010
  2. Article first published online: 2 JUL 2010
  3. (Manuscript received 21 December 2009; in final form 17 June 2010)

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