Increasing summer net CO2 uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 9047-9066

  Welp, Lisa R ^a,e   Patra, Prabir K ^b   Rödenbeck, Christian ^c   Nemani, Rama ^d   Bi, Jian ^a   Piper, Stephen C ^a   Keeling, Ralph F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technolgy   (Japan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TUNDRA;

EUROPE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84980416405     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-9047-2016     Document Type: Article

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