Sentences with phrase «robust global estimates»

While the historical performance of ocean models can be benchmarked against global inventories of ocean carbon, only recently have equivalently robust global estimates been developed for some components of land carbon storage (Saatchi et al 2011) and soils, the largest reservoir, remains very sparsely sampled.

In order to produce an estimate, given the sparse sampling, it is necessary to combine a range of methods and datasets (in - situ, DEM differencing, altimetry, gravimetry) to arrive at a robust global estimate.

Not exact matches

Together with a previous article in the same journal that calculated biomass export efficiency for these organisms for the first time, these new data allow robust estimates of global carbon export associated with gelatinous plankton.

It is believed that their global population may be between 4,000 and 6,500 in the wild, though there is no robust basis for these estimates [18].

The global methane emissions estimates included in this report, while more detailed and robust than anything currently available, are limited by the lack of credible, up - to - date estimates for most countries.