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Article: National Center for Atmospheric Research Aircraft, Ground Instruments to Track Carbon Dioxide Uptake Along Colorado's Drought-Plagued Front Range.
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- April 26, 2004
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Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research
BOULDER, Colo., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research will fly a C-130 research aircraft over Colorado's Front Range this May and July to measure how much carbon dioxide mountain forests remove from the air as spring turns into summer.
NCAR scientists and their university colleagues are developing new methods for assessing carbon uptake over complex terrain on regional scales. Accurate assessments could help show to what extent carbon dioxide storage in Western mountain forests -- a potentially important "sink" for the greenhouse gas -- may be slowing down as the ...