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Tracing carbon fixation

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Land surface models show large divergences in simulating the terrestrial carbon cycle. Atmospheric observations of the tracer carbonyl sulfide allow selection of the most realistic models.

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Figure 1: Atmospheric COS concentration profiles at two NOAA monitoring sites (WBI and CAR) and COS drawdowns from different processes.

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  1. Alexander Knohl is in the Bioclimatology group, Faculty of Forest Sciences, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany,

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  2. Matthias Cuntz is at the Inra Centre Grand Est - Nancy, Université de Lorraine, UMR1137 Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, 54280 Champenoux, France,

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