New international network to study greenhouse gases over the Amazon

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Published by University of Leicester Press Office for University of Leicester in Environment and also in Education

Researchers from the University of Leicester together with colleagues from other institutions from the UK and from the State of São Paulo, Brazil, are setting up a new international network to study the carbon cycle over the Amazonian rainforest. The network’s main objective is to evaluate the feasibility of remote sensing of greenhouse gas concentrations over Amazonia. This would improve our understanding of the Amazonian carbon cycle and tropical carbon fluxes (the movement of carbon within a sys...

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