A review of applications of model-data fusion to studies of terrestrial carbon fluxes at different scales

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1829-1842

  Wang, Ying Ping ^a   Trudinger, Cathy M ^a   Enting, Ian G ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon flux; Data assimilation; Kalman filter; Measurement error; Model error; Model data fusion; Parameter estimation; Statistical estimation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CARBON FLUX; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

EID: 69649094735     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.07.009     Document Type: Review

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