Patterns and controls of inter-annual variability in the terrestrial carbon budget

Marcolla, Barbara; Rödenbeck, Christian; Cescatti, Alessandro

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3815-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3815-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3815-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 16

Research article

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23 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 23 Aug 2017

Patterns and controls of inter-annual variability in the terrestrial carbon budget

Barbara Marcolla, Christian Rödenbeck, and Alessandro Cescatti

Data sets

FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem–Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities D. Baldocchi, E. Falge, L. Gu, R. Olson, D. Hollinger, S. Running, P. Anthoni, C. Bernhofer, K. Davis, R. Evans, J. Fuentes, A. Goldstein, G. Katul, B. Law, X. Lee, Y. Malhi, T. Meyers, W. Munger, W. Oechel, K. T. Paw, K. Pilegaard, H. P. Schmid, R. Valentini, S. Verma, T. Vesala, K. Wilson, and S. Wofsy https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<2415:FANTTS>2.3.CO;2

Towards global empirical upscaling of FLUXNET eddy covariance observations: validation of a model tree ensemble approach using a biosphere model M. Jung, M. Reichstein, and A. Bondeau https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-6-2001-2009

CO2 flux history 1982–2001 inferred from atmospheric data using a global inversion of atmospheric transport C. Rödenbeck, S. Houweling, M. Gloor, and M. Heimann https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-3-1919-2003

Global wildland fire emissions from 1960 to 2000 M. G. Schultz, A. Heil, J. J. Hoelzemann, A. Spessa, K. Thonicke, J. G. Goldammer, A. C. Held, J. M. C. Pereira, and M. van Het Bolscher https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GB003031

Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009) G. R. van der Werf, J. T. Randerson, L. Giglio, G. J. Collatz, M. Mu, P. S. Kasibhatla, D. C. Morton, R. S. DeFries, Y. Jin, and T. T. van Leeuwen https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-11707-2010

Hemispheric and large-scale land surface air temperature variations: an extensive revision and an update to 2010 P. D. Jones, D. H. Lister, T. J. Osborn, C. Harpham, M. Salmon, and C. P. Morice https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD017139

GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle U. Schneider, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, M. Ziese, and B. Rudolf https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-013-0860-x

Decision tree classification of land cover from remotely sensed data, Remote Sens. M. A. Friedl and C. E. Brodley https://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00049-7

Short summary

Patterns and controls of the inter-annual variability of carbon net ecosystem exchange were analysed using three different data streams: ecosystem-level observations (FLUXNET database), a global upscaling of site-level fluxes (MPI-MTE), and a top–down estimate of fluxes (Jena CarboScope Inversion). Consistencies and discrepancies in the temporal and spatial patterns and in the climatic and physiological controls of the inter-annual variability were investigated for the three data sources.