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Articles | Volume 13, issue 21
Articles | Volume 13, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-6015-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-6015-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 21
Research article
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03 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 03 Nov 2016

Quantifying the missing link between forest albedo and productivity in the boreal zone

Aarne Hovi, Jingjing Liang, Lauri Korhonen, Hideki Kobayashi, and Miina Rautiainen

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We investigated forest albedo and FAPAR in Alaska and Finland in the boreal zone, using a radiative transfer model parameterized with forest inventory data. Albedo and canopy FAPAR were tightly connected in coniferous forests, indicating that managing forests to increase albedo may compromise productivity. Alaskan and Finnish forests differed in their albedo and FAPAR values, and solar elevation was an important factor controlling the relationships between forest structure, albedo, and FAPAR.
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