Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3103-3121

  Parazoo, Nicholas C ^a,b   Bowman, Kevin ^a,b   Fisher, Joshua B ^a   Frankenberg, Christian ^a   Jones, Dylan B A ^b,c   Cescatti, Alessandro ^d   Pérez Priego, Óscar ^e   Wohlfahrt, Georg ^f   Montagnani, Leonardo ^g,h  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Los Angeles   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^g Forest Services   (Italy)

^h FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amazon; Carbon cycle; Climate change; Flux towers; Model benchmarking; Water stress

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GOSAT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION; WATER STRESS;

AMAZON BASIN; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

CHLOROPHYLL;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; NORTH AMERICA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; SUNLIGHT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; SEASONS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACECRAFT; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84908547818     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12652     Document Type: Article

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