Evaluation of biases in JRA-25/JCDAS precipitation and their impact on the global terrestrial carbon balance

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 4109-4125

  Saito, Makoto ^a   Ito, Akihiko ^a   Maksyutov, Shamil ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biosphere atmosphere interaction; Carbon dioxide; Ecosystem effects; Precipitation; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; BIAS CORRECTION; BIOSPHERE MODELS; BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; CANOPY STRUCTURE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLES; CARBON EXCHANGE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE DATA; CORRECTED PRECIPITATION; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; DRY AND WET; ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS; HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION; METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY; MODEL RESULTS; PRECIPITATION DATA; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL SCALE; S-DOMAIN; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLE; TOTAL BIOMASS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TRACE-GASES; ZONAL MEANS;

BIOSPHERICS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BIOSPHERE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 79960483762     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3918.1     Document Type: Article

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