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... potential for harmonisation and com- parison at a global scale ; Dramatic advances in the power to infer char- acteristics of Earth System processes in the past allow contemporary observations to be viewed in a coherent time continuum ...
... potential for harmonisation and com- parison at a global scale ; Dramatic advances in the power to infer char- acteristics of Earth System processes in the past allow contemporary observations to be viewed in a coherent time continuum ...
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... potential for carbon storage ( Fig . 6 ) . of The terrestrial biosphere also plays an important role in helping to control the atmospheric concentration of CO , ( Fig . 5b ) . Plants remove CO , from the atmosphere and convert it to ...
... potential for carbon storage ( Fig . 6 ) . of The terrestrial biosphere also plays an important role in helping to control the atmospheric concentration of CO , ( Fig . 5b ) . Plants remove CO , from the atmosphere and convert it to ...
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... potential synergies that will arise from the interactions of tens of thousands of investigators , research groups and institutions around the world . The ultimate challenge , however , is directed towards the governance and management ...
... potential synergies that will arise from the interactions of tens of thousands of investigators , research groups and institutions around the world . The ultimate challenge , however , is directed towards the governance and management ...
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Planetary Machinery | 9 |
Reverberations of Change | 19 |
Towards Earth System Science and Global Sustainability | 32 |
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