Monthly atmospheric CO₂ record from Ascension Island, United Kingdom

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Pieter P. Tans and Thomas J. Conway

NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305, U.S.A.

Period of Record

1979-2002

Ascension Island, U.K. Territory
South Atlantic Ocean
Island seashore
7°92' S, 14°42' W
54 m above MSL

Trends

The sampling site on Ascension Island is operated in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force and Computer Science Raytheon. The NOAA/CMDL flask data from Ascension Island show an increase in the annual value from 338.83 parts per million (ppm) in 1980 to 371.75 ppm in 2002.

CITE AS: Tans, Pieter P. and T.J. Conway, 2005. Monthly Atmospheric CO₂ Mixing Ratios from the NOAA CMDL Carbon Cycle Cooperative Global Air Sampling Network, 1968-2002. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.

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