Sander Houweling

2025

Quantifying uncertainties in satellite NO₂ superobservations for data assimilation and model evaluation

Rijsdijk, P., Eskes, H., Dingemans, A., Boersma, K. F., Sekiya, T., Miyazaki, K. & Houweling, S., 2025, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 18, 2, p. 483-509 27 p.

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2024

Integrating Satellite Observations and Hydrological Models to Unravel Large TROPOMI Methane Emissions in South Sudan Wetlands

Albuhaisi, Y. A. Y., van der Velde, Y., Pandey, S. & Houweling, S., Dec 2024, In: Remote Sensing. 16, 24, p. 1-19 19 p., 4744.

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Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Budgets of Europe: Trends, Interannual and Spatial Variability, and Their Drivers

Lauerwald, R., Bastos, A., McGrath, M. J., Petrescu, A. M. R., Ritter, F., Andrew, R. M., Berchet, A., Broquet, G., Brunner, D., Chevallier, F., Cescatti, A., Filipek, S., Fortems-Cheiney, A., Forzieri, G., Friedlingstein, P., Fuchs, R., Gerbig, C., Houweling, S., Ke, P. & Lerink, B. J. W. & 23 others, Li, W., Li, W., Li, X., Luijkx, I., Monteil, G., Munassar, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Patra, P. K., Peylin, P., Pongratz, J., Regnier, P., Saunois, M., Schelhaas, M. J., Scholze, M., Sitch, S., Thompson, R. L., Tian, H., Tsuruta, A., Wilson, C., Wigneron, J. P., Yao, Y., Zaehle, S. & Ciais, P., Aug 2024, In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 38, 8, p. 1-43 43 p., e2024GB008141.

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Small Fires, Big Impact: Evaluating Fire Emission Estimates in Southern Africa Using New Satellite Imagery of Burned Area and Carbon Monoxide

van der Velde, I. R., van der Werf, G. R., van Wees, D., Schutgens, N. A. J., Vernooij, R., Houweling, S., Tonucci, E., Chuvieco, E., Randerson, J. T., Frey, M. M., Borsdorff, T. & Aben, I., 28 Jun 2024, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 51, 12, p. 1-10 10 p., e2023GL106122.

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Comparison of observation- and inventory-based methane emissions for eight large global emitters

Petrescu, A. M. R., Peters, G. P., Engelen, R., Houweling, S., Brunner, D., Tsuruta, A., Matthews, B., Patra, P. K., Belikov, D., Thompson, R. L., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Zhang, W., Segers, A. J., Etiope, G., Ciotoli, G., Peylin, P., Chevallier, F., Aalto, T., Andrew, R. M. & Bastviken, D. & 18 others, Berchet, A., Broquet, G., Conchedda, G., Dellaert, S. N. C., Denier Van Der Gon, H., Gütschow, J., Haussaire, J. M., Lauerwald, R., Markkanen, T., Van Peet, J. C. A., Pison, I., Regnier, P., Solum, E., Scholze, M., Tenkanen, M., Tubiello, F. N., Van Der Werf, G. R. & Worden, J. R., 2024, In: Earth System Science Data. 16, 9, p. 4325-4350 26 p.

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2023

The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban photochemistry as inferred from TROPOMI

Lama, S., Houweling, S., Boersma, K. F., Aben, I., van der Gon, H. A. C. D. & Krol, M. C., 1 Nov 2023, In: Atmospheric Environment. 312, p. 1-12 12 p., 120042.

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Daily detection and quantification of methane leaks using Sentinel-3: a tiered satellite observation approach with Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-5p

Pandey, S., van Nistelrooij, M., Maasakkers, J. D., Sutar, P., Houweling, S., Varon, D. J., Tol, P., Gains, D., Worden, J. & Aben, I., 1 Oct 2023, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 296, p. 1-10 10 p., 113716.

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Global Atmospheric δ¹³CH₄ and CH₄ Trends for 2000–2020 from the Atmospheric Transport Model TM5 Using CH₄ from Carbon Tracker Europe–CH₄ Inversions

Mannisenaho, V., Tsuruta, A., Backman, L., Houweling, S., Segers, A., Krol, M., Saunois, M., Poulter, B., Zhang, Z., Lan, X., Dlugokencky, E. J., Michel, S., White, J. W. C. & Aalto, T., Jul 2023, In: Atmosphere. 14, 7, p. 1-22 22 p., 1121.

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High-Resolution Estimation of Methane Emissions from Boreal and Pan-Arctic Wetlands Using Advanced Satellite Data

Albuhaisi, Y. A. Y., van der Velde, Y., De Jeu, R., Zhang, Z. & Houweling, S., Jul 2023, In: Remote Sensing. 15, 13, p. 1-28 28 p., 3433.

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The Importance of Spatial Resolution in the Modeling of Methane Emissions from Natural Wetlands

Albuhaisi, Y. A. Y., van der Velde, Y. & Houweling, S., 1 Jun 2023, In: Remote Sensing. 15, 11, p. 1-19 19 p., 2840.

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Automated detection and monitoring of methane super-emitters using satellite data

Schuit, B. J., Maasakkers, J. D., Bijl, P., Mahapatra, G., Van Den Berg, A. W., Pandey, S., Lorente, A., Borsdorff, T., Houweling, S., Varon, D. J., McKeever, J., Jervis, D., Girard, M., Irakulis-Loitxate, I., Gorroño, J., Guanter, L., Cusworth, D. H. & Aben, I., 2023, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 23, 16, p. 9071-9098 28 p.

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Editorial: Anthropogenic emission monitoring with the Copernicus CO₂ monitoring mission

Meijer, Y., Andersson, E., Boesch, H., Dubovik, O., Houweling, S., Landgraf, J., Lang, R. & Lindqvist, H., 2023, In: Frontiers in Remote Sensing. 4, p. 1-3 3 p., 1217568.

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The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for EU27 and UK: 1990–2019

Petrescu, A.-M.-R., Qiu, C., McGrath, M. J., Peylin, P., P. Peters, G., Ciais, P., Thompson, R. L., Tsuruta, A., Brunner, D., Kuhnert, M., Matthews, B., Palmer, P. I., Tarasova, O., Regnier, P., Lauerwald, R., Bastviken, D., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Winiwarter, W., Etiope, G. & Aalto, T. & 38 others, Balsamo, G., Bastrikov, V., Berchet, A., Brockmann, P., Ciotoli, G., Conchedda, G., Crippa, M., Dentener, F. J., Groot Zwaaftink, C. D., Guizzardi, D., Günther, D., Haussaire, J.-M., Houweling, S., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Kouyate, M., Leip, A., Leppänen, A., Lugato, E., Maisonnier, M., Manning, A. J., Markkanen, T., McNorton, J., Muntean, M., Oreggioni, G. D., Patra, P. K., Perugini, L., Pison, I., Raivonen, M. T., Saunois, M., Segers, A., Smith, P., Solazzo, E., Tian, H., N. Tubiello, F., Vesala, T., van der Werf, G., Wilson, C. & Zaehle, S., 2023, In: Earth System Science Data. 15, 3, p. 1197–1268 72 p.

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2022

Estimation of OH in urban plumes using TROPOMI-inferred NO2 ∕ CO

Lama, S., Houweling, S., Folkert Boersma, K., Aben, I., A. C. Denier Van Der Gon, H. & Krol, M. C., Dec 2022, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 22, 24, p. 16053-16071 19 p.

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Order of magnitude wall time improvement of variational methane inversions by physical parallelization: A demonstration using TM5-4DVAR

Pandey, S., Houweling, S. & Segers, A., 14 Jun 2022, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 15, 11, p. 4555-4567 13 p.

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The Role of Emission Sources and Atmospheric Sink in the Seasonal Cycle of CH₄ and δ¹³-CH₄: Analysis Based on the Atmospheric Chemistry Transport Model TM5

Kangasaho, V., Tsuruta, A., Backman, L., Mäkinen, P., Houweling, S., Segers, A., Krol, M., Dlugokencky, E. J., Michel, S., White, J. W. C. & Aalto, T., Jun 2022, In: Atmosphere. 13, 6, p. 1-24 24 p., 888.

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Assessing the Impact of Atmospheric CO2 and NO2 Measurements From Space on Estimating City-Scale Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in a Data Assimilation System

Kaminski, T., Scholze, M., Rayner, P., Houweling, S., Voßbeck, M., Lama, S., Buchwitz, M., Reuter, M., Knorr, W., W. Chen, H., Kuhlmann, G., Brunner, D., Dellaert, S., A. C. Denier Van Der Gon, H., Super , I., Löscher, A. & Meijer, Y., May 2022, In: Frontiers in Remote Sensing. 3, May, p. 1-21 21 p., 887456.

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Reconstructing and quantifying methane emissions from the full duration of a 38-day natural gas well blowout using space-based observations

Maasakkers, J. D., Omara, M., Gautam, R., Lorente, A., Pandey, S., Tol, P., Borsdorff, T., Houweling, S. & Aben, I., 1 Mar 2022, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 270, p. 1-7 7 p., 112755.

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A high-resolution gridded inventory of coal mine methane emissions for India and Australia

Sadavarte, P., Pandey, S., Maasakkers, J. D., van der Gon, H. D., Houweling, S. & Aben, I., 2022, In: Elementa. 10, 1, p. 1-14 14 p., 00056.

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Improved calibration procedures for the EM27/SUN spectrometers of the COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON)

Alberti, C., Hase, F., Frey, M., Dubravica, D., Blumenstock, T., Dehn, A., Castracane, P., Surawicz, G., Harig, R., Baier, B. C., Bès, C., Bi, J., Boesch, H., Butz, A., Cai, Z., Chen, J., Crowell, S. M., Deutscher, N. M., Ene, D. & Franklin, J. E. & 42 others, García, O., Griffith, D., Grouiez, B., Grutter, M., Hamdouni, A., Houweling, S., Humpage, N., Jacobs, N., Jeong, S., Joly, L., Jones, N. B., Jouglet, D., Kivi, R., Kleinschek, R., Lopez, M., Medeiros, D. J., Morino, I., Mostafavipak, N., Müller, A., Ohyama, H., Palmer, P. I., Pathakoti, M., Pollard, D. F., Raffalski, U., Ramonet, M., Ramsay, R., Sha, M. K., Shiomi, K., Simpson, W., Stremme, W., Sun, Y., Tanimoto, H., Té, Y., Tsidu, G. M., Velazco, V. A., Vogel, F., Watanabe, M., Wei, C., Wunch, D., Yamasoe, M., Zhang, L. & Orphal, J., 2022, In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 15, 8, p. 2433-2463 31 p.

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2021

Methane Emissions from Superemitting Coal Mines in Australia Quantified Using TROPOMI Satellite Observations

Sadavarte, P., Pandey, S., Maasakkers, J. D., Lorente, A., Borsdorff, T., Denier van der Gon, H., Houweling, S. & Aben, I., 21 Dec 2021, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 55, 24, p. 16573-16580 8 p.

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Relevant methane emission to the atmosphere from a geological gas manifestation

Mazzini, A., Sciarra, A., Etiope, G., Sadavarte, P., Houweling, S., Pandey, S. & Husein, A., Dec 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, p. 10-10 10 p., 4138.

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Vast CO₂ release from Australian fires in 2019–2020 constrained by satellite

van der Velde, I. R., van der Werf, G. R., Houweling, S., Maasakkers, J. D., Borsdorff, T., Landgraf, J., Tol, P., van Kempen, T. A., van Hees, R., Hoogeveen, R., Veefkind, J. P. & Aben, I., 16 Sept 2021, In: Nature. 597, 7876, p. 366-369 4 p.

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The Community Inversion Framework v1.0: A unified system for atmospheric inversion studies

Berchet, A., Sollum, E., Thompson, R. L., Pison, I., Thanwerdas, J., Broquet, G., Chevallier, F., Aalto, T., Berchet, A., Bergamaschi, P., Brunner, D., Engelen, R., Fortems-Cheiney, A., Gerbig, C., Groot Zwaaftink, C. D., Haussaire, J. M., Henne, S., Houweling, S., Karstens, U. & Kutsch, W. L. & 12 others, Luijkx, I. T., Monteil, G., Palmer, P. I., Van Peet, J. C. A., Peters, W., Peylin, P., Potier, E., Rödenbeck, C., Saunois, M., Scholze, M., Tsuruta, A. & Zhao, Y., Aug 2021, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 14, 8, p. 5331-5354 24 p.

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A tale of two regions: Methane emissions from oil and gas production in offshore/onshore Mexico

Zavala-Araiza, D., Omara, M., Gautam, R., Smith, M. L., Pandey, S., Aben, I., Almanza-Veloz, V., Conley, S., Houweling, S., Kort, E. A., Maasakkers, J. D., Molina, L. T., Pusuluri, A., Scarpelli, T., Schwietzke, S., Shen, L., Zavala, M. & Hamburg, S. P., Feb 2021, In: Environmental Research Letters. 16, 2, p. 1-11 11 p., 024019.

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Using satellite data to identify the methane emission controls of South Sudan's wetlands

Pandey, S., Houweling, S., Lorente, A., Borsdorff, T., Tsivlidou, M., Anthony Bloom, A., Poulter, B., Zhang, Z. & Aben, I., 22 Jan 2021, In: Biogeosciences. 18, 2, p. 557-572 16 p.

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Biomass burning combustion efficiency observed from space using measurements of CO and NO2 by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI)

Van Der Velde, I. R., Van Der Werf, G. R., Houweling, S., Eskes, H. J., Pepijn Veefkind, J., Borsdorff, T. & Aben, I., 18 Jan 2021, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 21, 2, p. 597-616 20 p., 5972021.

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2020

Description and evaluation of a detailed gas-phase chemistry scheme in the TM5-MP global chemistry transport model (r112)

Myriokefalitakis, S., Daskalakis, N., Gkouvousis, A., Hilboll, A., Van Noije, T., Williams, J. E., Le Sager, P., Huijnen, V., Houweling, S., Bergman, T., Rasmus Nüß, J., Vrekoussis, M., Kanakidou, M. & Krol, M. C., 12 Nov 2020, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 13, 11, p. 5507-5548 42 p.

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Toward an operational anthropogenic CO₂ emissions monitoring and verification support capacity

Janssens-Maenhout, G., Pinty, B., Dowell, M., Zunker, H., Andersson, E., Balsamo, G., Bézy, J. L., Brunhes, T., Bösch, H., Bojkov, B., Brunner, D., Buchwitz, M., Crisp, D., Ciais, P., Counet, P., Dee, D., Denier van der Gon, H., Dolman, H., Drinkwater, M. R. & Dubovik, O. & 22 others, Engelen, R., Fehr, T., Fernandez, V., Heimann, M., Holmlund, K., Houweling, S., Husband, R., Juvyns, O., Kentarchos, A., Landgraf, J., Lang, R., Löscher, A., Marshall, J., Meijer, Y., Nakajima, M., Palmer, P. I., Peylin, P., Rayner, P., Scholze, M., Sierk, B., Tamminen, J. & Veefkind, P., 1 Aug 2020, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101, 8, p. E1439-E1451 13 p.

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The global methane budget 2000-2017

Saunois, M., R. Stavert, A., Poulter, B., Bousquet, P., G. Canadell, J., B. Jackson, R., A. Raymond, P., J. Dlugokencky, E., Houweling, S., K. Patra, P., Ciais, P., K. Arora, V., Bastviken, D., Bergamaschi, P., R. Blake, D., Brailsford, G., Bruhwiler, L., M. Carlson, K., Carrol, M. & Castaldi, S. & 71 others, Chandra, N., Crevoisier, C., M. Crill, P., Covey, K., L. Curry, C., Etiope, G., Frankenberg, C., Gedney, N., I. Hegglin, M., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Hugelius, G., Ishizawa, M., Ito, A., Janssens-Maenhout, G., M. Jensen, K., Joos, F., Kleinen, T., B. Krummel, P., L. Langenfelds, R., G. Laruelle, G., Liu, L., MacHida, T., Maksyutov, S., C. McDonald, K., McNorton, J., A. Miller, P., R. Melton, J., Morino, I., Müller, J., Murguia-Flores, F., Naik, V., Niwa, Y., Noce, S., O'Doherty, S., J. Parker, R., Peng, C., Peng, S., P. Peters, G., Prigent, C., Prinn, R., Ramonet, M., Regnier, P., J. Riley, W., A. Rosentreter, J., Segers, A., J. Simpson, I., Shi, H., J. Smith, S., Paul Steele, L., F. Thornton, B., Tian, H., Tohjima, Y., N. Tubiello, F., Tsuruta, A., Viovy, N., Voulgarakis, A., S. Weber, T., Van Weele, M., R. Van Der Werf, G., F. Weiss, R., Worthy, D., Wunch, D., Yin, Y., Yoshida, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Y., Zheng, B., Zhu, Q., Zhu, Q. & Zhuang, Q., 15 Jul 2020, In: Earth System Science Data. 12, 3, p. 1561-1623 63 p.

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Model simulations of atmospheric methane (1997-2016) and their evaluation using NOAA and AGAGE surface and IAGOS-CARIBIC aircraft observations

Zimmermann, P. H., Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M., Pozzer, A., Jöckel, P., Winterstein, F., Zahn, A., Houweling, S. & Lelieveld, J., 14 May 2020, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 20, 9, p. 5787-5809 23 p.

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Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

Zhang, Y., Gautam, R., Pandey, S., Omara, M., Maasakkers, J. D., Sadavarte, P., Lyon, D., Nesser, H., Sulprizio, M. P., Varon, D. J., Zhang, R., Houweling, S., Zavala-Araiza, D., Alvarez, R. A., Lorente, A., Hamburg, S. P., Aben, I. & Jacob, D. J., 22 Apr 2020, In: Science advances. 6, 17, p. 1-10 10 p., aaz5120.

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Quantifying burning efficiency in Megacities using NO2/CO ratio from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI)

Lama, S., Houweling, S., Folkert Boersma, K., Aben, I., A. C. Denier Van Der Gon, H., Krol, M. C., Borsdorff, T. & Lorente, A., 2020. 13 p.

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Quantifying burning efficiency in megacities using the NO2ĝ•CO ratio from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI)

Lama, S., Houweling, S., Folkert Boersma, K., Eskes, H., Aben, I., A. C. Denier Van Der Gon, H., C. Krol, M., Dolman, H., Borsdorff, T. & Lorente, A., 2020, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 20, 17, p. 10295-10310 16 p.

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2019

Satellite observations reveal extreme methane leakage from a natural gas well blowout

Pandey, S., Gautam, R., Houweling, S., Van Der Gon, H. D., Sadavarte, P., Borsdorff, T., Hasekamp, O., Landgraf, J., Tol, P., Van Kempen, T., Hoogeveen, R., Van Hees, R., Hamburg, S. P., Maasakkers, J. D. & Aben, I., 26 Dec 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 52, p. 26376-26381 6 p.

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Satellite Discovery of Anomalously Large Methane Point Sources From Oil/Gas Production

Varon, D. J., McKeever, J., Jervis, D., Maasakkers, J. D., Pandey, S., Houweling, S., Aben, I., Scarpelli, T. & Jacob, D. J., 28 Nov 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 22, p. 13507-13516 10 p.

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Carbon monoxide air pollution on sub-city scales and along arterial roads detected by the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument

Borsdorff, T., De Brugh, J. A., Pandey, S., Hasekamp, O., Aben, I., Houweling, S. & Landgraf, J., 20 Mar 2019, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 19, 6, p. 3579-3588 10 p.

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What caused the extreme CO concentrations during the 2017 high-pollution episode in India?

Dekker, I. N., Houweling, S., Pandey, S., Krol, M., Röckmann, T., Borsdorff, T., Landgraf, J. & Aben, I., 19 Mar 2019, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 19, 6, p. 3433-3445 13 p.

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2018

IG3IS Cross cutting activity: National scale

Houweling, S., Oct 2018.

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Het broeikaskompas: De koers van de mondiale opwarming

Houweling, S., 7 Sept 2018, Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit. 10 p.

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