Global and regional CO2 budget comparison between top-down and bottom-up approaches


Masayuki Kondo1, Dr. Prabir Kumar Patra, PhD1, Stephen Sitch2, Philippe Ciais3, Frederic Chevallier4, Josep Gili Canadell5, Ana Bastos6, Benjamin Poulter7, Leonardo Calle8 and Kazuhito Ichii9, (1)Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (2)University of Exeter, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (4)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (5)CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (6)Leipzig University, Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Leipzig, Germany, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA GSFC/UMD ESSIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research, Kanagawa, Japan