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Jonas Ardö

Jonas Ardö

Professor

Jonas Ardö

Comparison between remote sensing and a dynamic vegetation model for estimating terrestrial primary production of Africa

Author

  • Jonas Ardö

Summary, in English

Africa is an important part of the global carbon cycle. It is also a continent facing potential problems due to increasing resource demand in combination with climate change-induced changes in resource supply. Quantifying the pools and fluxes constituting the terrestrial African carbon cycle is a challenge, because of uncertainties in meteorological driver data, lack of validation data, and potentially uncertain representation of important processes in major ecosystems. In this paper, terrestrial primary production estimates derived from remote sensing and a dynamic vegetation model are compared and quantified for major African land cover types.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

Carbon Balance and Management

Volume

10

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

BioMed Central (BMC)

Topic

  • Climate Research

Keywords

  • Africa
  • carbon cycle
  • GPP
  • LPJ-GUESS
  • MOD17
  • NPP
  • resource assessment

Status

Published

Research group

  • remote sensing

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1750-0680