Autumn cooling paused increased CO2 release in central Eurasia

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Fig. 1: Regional patterns of 2004–2018 autumn cooling and associated GPP and TER trends for the land north of 25° N.
Fig. 2: Interannual variability of autumn NEE and CO2.

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CRU TS4.05, FLUXCOM and atmospheric CO2 measurements data used in this study are available respectively from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.05/), the data portal of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/geodb/projects/Home.php) and the Global Environmental Dataset of the Center for Global Environmental Research at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (https://db.cger.nies.go.jp/portal/geds/atmosphericAndOceanicMonitoring?lang=eng).

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Acknowledgements

M.K. and T.H. acknowledge support from JSPS KAKENHI (grant nos. 19H05668 and 19K12294). The measurements in central Eurasia were financially supported by the Global Environmental Research Coordination System from the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and partly by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project no. 121031500342-0). M.K. acknowledges M. Takeuchi and K. Suganuma at the Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University for supporting the processing of the Siberian CO2 data.

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Kondo, M., Sasakawa, M., Machida, T. et al. Autumn cooling paused increased CO2 release in central Eurasia.
Nat. Clim. Chang. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01625-4

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  • Received: 13 May 2022

  • Accepted: 09 February 2023

  • Published: 16 March 2023

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01625-4

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