Other stations of the global
CO2 measurement network show almost exactly the same; the most important regional variation is the greatly subdued seasonal cycle at stations in the southern hemisphere.
Not exact matches
The
CO2 is sampled from air that is above the Boundary Layer; ostensibly free from surface effects.The Keeling Curve has the longest history of
CO2 continuous
measurements; but over the past 50 years a
network of similar stations has become active.
In conclusion, the present atmospheric
measurement network, current information on air - sea fluxes and current understanding of vertical atmospheric transport are not sufficient to allow full use of the potential of inverse modelling techniques to infer geographically detailed source - sink distributions of anthropogenic
CO2.
We did so by estimating monthly fluxes and their uncertainty over a one - year period between June 2009 and May 2010 from 1) observational data collected in existing
networks of surface
CO2 measurement sites (GLOBALVIEWCO2 2010; extrapolated to the year 2010) and 2) both the surface observations and column - averaged dry air mole fractions of
CO2 (XCO2) retrieved from GOSAT soundings.