Extreme events driving year-to-year differences in gross primary productivity across the US

Turner, Alexander J.; Köhler, Philipp; Magney, Troy S.; Frankenberg, Christian; Fung, Inez; Cohen, Ronald C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6579-2021

Articles | Volume 18, issue 24

Biogeosciences, 18, 6579–6588, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6579-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Biogeosciences, 18, 6579–6588, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6579-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 24

Research article 23 Dec 2021

Research article | 23 Dec 2021

Extreme events driving year-to-year differences in gross primary productivity across the US

Alexander J. Turner et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6579-2021-supplement

Data sets

CMS: Daily Gross Primary Productivity over CONUS from TROPOMI SIF, 2018-2020 A. J. Turner, P. Koehler, T. Magney, C. Frankenberg, I. Fung, and R. C. Cohen https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1875

Short summary

This work builds a high-resolution estimate (500 m) of gross primary productivity (GPP) over the US using satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) from the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) between 2018 and 2020. We identify ecosystem-specific scaling factors for estimating gross primary productivity (GPP) from TROPOMI SIF. Extreme precipitation events drive four regional GPP anomalies that account for 28 % of year-to-year GPP differences across the US.