Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-69

  Xiao, Jingfeng ^a   Zhuang, Qianlai ^a   Law, Beverly E ^b   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^c   Chen, Jiquan ^d   Richardson, Andrew D ^e   Melillo, Jerry M ^f   Davis, Kenneth J ^g   Hollinger, David Y ^h   Wharton, Sonia ⁱ   Oren, Ram ^j   Noormets, Asko ^k   Fischer, Marc L ^l   Verma, Shashi B ^m   Cook, David R ⁿ   Sun, Ge ^h   McNulty, Steve ^h   Wofsy, Steven C ^o   Bolstad, Paul V ^p   Burns, Sean P ^q   Curtis, Peter S ^r   Drake, Bert G ^s   Falk, Matthias ⁱ   Foster, David R ^t   Gu, Lianhong ^u   Hadley, Julian L ^t   Katul, Gabriel G ^j   Litvak, Marcy ^v   Ma, Siyan ^c   Martin, Timothy A ^w   Matamala, Roser ⁿ   Meyers, Tilden P ^x   Monson, Russell K ^q   Munger, J William ^e   Oechel, Walter C ^y   Paw, U Kyaw Tha ⁱ   Schmid, Hans Peter ^z,aa   Scott, Russell L ^ab   Starr, Gregory ^ac   Suyker, Andrew E ^m   Torn, Margaret S ^l   more..

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

ⁿ ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^o HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^r OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^t HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^x NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^y SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^ab SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Carbon sink; Disturbance; Drought; Eddy covariance; Interannual variability; MODIS; Net ecosystem carbon exchange; U.S.

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; EDDY COVARIANCE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOSSIL FUEL; HURRICANE; MODIS; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649328478     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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