Uncertainty in predictions of forest carbon dynamics: Separating driver error from model error

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1506-1522

  Spadavecchia, L ^a   Williams, M ^a   Law, B E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dynamics; Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman filter; Geostatistics; Process based modeling; Product sum covariance model

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RAIN; WATER;

CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONIFEROUS TREE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY MODELING; GEOSTATISTICS; KALMAN FILTER; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WEATHER STATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PINE; SOIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE; UNCERTAINTY;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS; RAIN; SOIL; TREES; UNCERTAINTY; WATER;

METOLIUS; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960370798     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1183.1     Document Type: Article

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