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Summary of Workshop on Inverse Problems

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The Global Carbon Cycle

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The inverse problem, in the context used here, is the determination of sources and sinks of CO2 from measurements of concentrations in the atmosphere. The connection between source and sink fluxes (called simply source fluxes below) and atmospheric concentrations is by transport through the atmosphere with associated dispersion and mixing. Atmospheric transport models can be used to define a linear relationship between hypothetical source fluxes and the resulting concentration fields, however the eddy diffusive component of atmospheric transport means that this linear relationship cannot easily be inverted.

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  1. Division of Atmospheric Research, CSIRO, Private Bag 1, 3195, Mordialloc, Vic, Australia

    I. G. Enting

  2. DSIR Physical Sciences, P.O. Box 31312, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    M. R. Manning

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  1. Max-Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Heimann

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Enting, I.G., Manning, M.R. (1993). Summary of Workshop on Inverse Problems. In: Heimann, M. (eds) The Global Carbon Cycle. NATO ASI Series, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84608-3_24

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