Monthly atmospheric CO₂ record from Easter Island, Chile

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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

1994-2002

Easter Island, Chile
27°15' S, 109°45' W
50 m above MSL

Trends

The sampling site at Easter Island, Chile, is operated in cooperation with the Direccion Meteorologica de Chile. The NOAA/CMDL flask data from Easter Island show an increase in the annual value from 355.72 parts per million (ppm) in 1994 to 370.43 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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