Monthly atmospheric CO₂ record from Mt. Waliguan, Peoples Republic of China

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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

1990-2002

Mt. Waliguan, Peoples Republic of China
36°29' N, 100°90' E
3810 m above MSL

Trends

The NOAA/CMDL sampling site at Mt. Waliguan, Peoples Republic of China is operated in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. The NOAA/CMDL flask air samples from Mt. Waliguan show an increase in the annual value from 355.23 parts per million (ppm) in 1991 to 372.65 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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