Diurnal tracking of anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the Los Angeles basin megacity during spring 2010
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Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Atmospheric Science Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS 90K-125, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, Texas 77004, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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