Monitoring carbon assimilation in South America's tropical forests: Model specification and application to the Amazonian droughts of 2005 and 2010

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 117, Issue , 2012, Pages 449-463

  Nunes, Edson L ^a   Costa, Marcos H ^a   Malhado, Ana C M ^a,b   Dias, Lívia C P ^a   Vieira, Simone A ^c   Pinto, Luciana B ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^b,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modeling; Net primary production; Rate of carbon fixation; Tropical ecosystems; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

AMAZON RAIN FOREST; AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC FOREST; AVERAGE ERRORS; CARBON ASSIMILATION; CARBON BUDGETS; CARBON FIXATION; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; KEY VARIABLES; LEAF AREA INDEX; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RATE OF CARBON FIXATION; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; MODELS; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON FIXATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; TROPICS;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC FOREST;

EID: 84855471372     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.022     Document Type: Article

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