What eddy-covariance measurements tell us about prior land flux errors in CO2-flux inversion schemes

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chevallier, Frédéric ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^a   Maignan, Fabienne ^a   Bocquet, Marc ^b,c   Altaf Arain, M ^d   Cescatti, Alessandro ^e   Chen, Jiquan ^f   Dolman, A Johannes ^g   Law, Beverly E ^h   Margolis, Hank A ⁱ   Montagnani, Leonardo ^j,k,l   Moors, Eddy J ^m  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE L'OUEST   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^j Autonomous Province of Bolzano   (Italy)

^k Agency for the Environment   (Italy)

^l FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^m WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INVERSIONS; BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; E-FOLDING; ERROR VARIANCE; FLUX ERROR; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; FLUXNET; GLOBAL MODELS; GRID POINTS; INVERSION SCHEME; MODELING SYSTEMS; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; PRIOR INFORMATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; SURFACE FLUX; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE FLUX; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84863270817     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003974     Document Type: Article

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