Cross-evaluation of measurements of peatland methane emissions on microform and ecosystem scales using high-resolution landcover classification and source weight modelling

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 864-874

  Forbrich, Inke ^a   Kutzbach, Lars ^a,b   Wille, Christian ^a,b   Becker, Thomas ^a,c   Wu, Jiabing ^a,d   Wilmking, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chamber; Eddy covariance; Footprint; Methane; Peatlands; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EDDY COVARIANCE; EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOTPRINT; LAND COVER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHANE; MIRE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION;

EID: 79955630723     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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