Sampling Air on the Continental Divide (IMAGE)

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Sampling Air on the Continental Divide

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CIRES scientist Duane Kitzis approaches the air sampling station on Niwot Ridge, Colorado, part of NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network, in this 2017 photo. The first air sample analyzed for carbon-14 as part of research into a new method of estimating fossil fuel emissions from ambient air was collected here in 2003.

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James Murnan, NOAA

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