Interpreting seasonal changes in the carbon balance of southern Amazonia using measurements of XCO2 and chlorophyll fluorescence from GOSAT

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2829-2833

  Parazoo, Nicholas C ^a,b   Bowman, Kevin ^a,b   Frankenberg, Christian ^a   Lee, Jung Eun ^a   Fisher, Joshua B ^a   Worden, John ^a   Jones, Dylan B A ^b,c   Berry, Joseph ^d   Collatz, G James ^e   Baker, Ian T ^f   Jung, Martin ^g   Liu, Junjie ^a   Osterman, Gregory ^a   O'Dell, Chris ^f   Sparks, Athena ^a   Butz, Andre ^h   Guerlet, Sandrine ⁱ   Yoshida, Yukio ^j   Chen, Huilin ^k,l   Gerbig, Christoph ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Los Angeles   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^h KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^k NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

amazon; biomass burning; carbon cycle; chlorophyll fluorescence; GOSAT; satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AMAZON; BIOMASS-BURNING; CARBON CYCLES; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; GOSAT; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GOSAT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLLS; COMBUSTION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FLUORESCENCE; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84879978434     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50452     Document Type: Article

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