Effect of environmental conditions on the relationship between solar-induced fluorescence and gross primary productivity at an OzFlux grassland site

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 716-733

  Verma, Manish ^a,b   Schimel, David ^a   Evans, Bradley ^c   Frankenberg, Christian ^a,d   Beringer, Jason ^e   Drewry, Darren T ^a   Magney, Troy ^a   Marang, Ian ^c   Hutley, Lindsay ^f   Moore, Caitlin ^g   Eldering, Annmarie ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

GPP; model validation; SCOPE; solar induced fluorescence; Vcmax

Indexed keywords

EDDY COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLUORESCENCE; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; MODEL VALIDATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OCO; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 85017028343     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003580     Document Type: Article

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