Constraining ecosystem processes from tower fluxes and atmospheric profiles

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1474-1489

  Hill, T C ^a   Williams, M ^a   Woodward, F I ^b   Moncrieff, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Boreal forest; Boreas; Carbon budget; Ecosystem model; Eddy covariance; Planetary boundary layer; Productivity; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; AIRCRAFT; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEAF AREA; TRANSPIRATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS;

BOREAS;

EID: 79960347218     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0840.1     Document Type: Article

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