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Dutta 2002
Dutta, K. (2002). Coherence of tropospheric 14CO2 with El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2002GL014753. issn: 0094-8276.

The El Ni¿o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events cause significant perturbation in the global carbon cycle, due to reduced upwelling in the equatorial Pacific and enhanced release of biospheric CO2 from tropical forests. Both these effects tend to enrich the atmospheric CO2 in radiocarbon (14C). To examine the relationship of interannual variations of 14C in the atmospheric CO2 with the ENSO events, statistical coherence between tropospheric 14CO2 with various ENSO indices are analyzed here. The warm ENSO phases found to correlate with positive tropospheric 14CO2 anomalies.

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Air/sea constituent fluxes (3339, 4504), Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Geochemical cycles, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Troposphere--composition and chemistry, Geochemistry, Isotopic composition/chemistry, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504), Oceanography, Physical, El Nino, Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Carbon cycling, Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Radioactivity and radioisotopes
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Geophysical Research Letters
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