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Recent trends and physiological constraints on northern extra-tropical ecosystems from atmospheric and satellite data

Keeling, Ralph: UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Project Lead)
Welp, Lisa: Purdue University (Participant)

Project Funding: 2011 - 2014

NRA: 2010 NASA: Carbon Cycle Science   

Funded by NASA

Abstract:
This project has the dual goals of refining the constraints on northern hemispheric gross primary production based on time series of the oxygen isotopes of CO2 and of conducting a synthesis of seasonal cycles in atmospheric CO2 and satellite-based productivity, to look for trends in norther extra-tropical carbon cycling over the past few decades.

Publications:

Graven, H. D., Keeling, R. F., Piper, S. C., Patra, P. K., Stephens, B. B., Wofsy, S. C., Welp, L. R., Sweeney, C., Tans, P. P., Kelley, J. J., Daube, B. C., Kort, E. A., Santoni, G. W., Bent, J. D. 2013. Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO 2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960. Science. 341(6150), 1085-1089. DOI: 10.1126/science.1239207


2013 NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting Poster(s)

  • Increasing seasonal land-atmosphere CO2 exchange as a result of unidentified large-scale changes in arctic and boreal ecosystems   --   (Lisa R Welp, Heather Graven, Stephen Charles Piper, Prabir Patra, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Ralph Keeling)   [abstract]

2011 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

  • Trends in annual and seasonal high northern latitude CO2 fluxes from 1986 to 2007 inferred from a time dependent inversion compared with satellite NDVI observations to identify likely regions of change   --   (Lisa Welp, Prabir Patra, Ralph Keeling, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Stephen Charles Piper)   [abstract]   [poster]

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