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Marko Scholze

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Constraining terrestrial carbon fluxes through assimilation of SMOS products

Author

  • T. Kaminski
  • M. Scholze
  • W. Knorr
  • M. Vossbeck
  • M. Wu
  • P. Ferrazzoli
  • Y. Kerr
  • A. Mialon
  • P. Richaume
  • N. Rodriguez-Fernandez
  • C. Vittucci
  • J. P. Wigneron
  • M. Drusch

Summary, in English

The ongoing ESA funded'SMOS + Vegetation' project combines a retrieval component that aims at further improving the SMOS VOD product with an assimilation component that aims at demonstrating the added value of this product in constraining simulated land surface fluxes of carbon dioxide. This contribution focuses on the project's modelling and assimilation component. We describe the construction of dedicated observation operators that link the state of the terrestrial biosphere model to simulated VOD and surface layer soil moisture. We present our carbon assimilation system around a terrestrial biosphere model and demonstrate its operation through simultaneous assimilation of the SMOS VOD product over seven sites covering a range of plant functional types.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publishing year

2018

Language

English

Pages

1455-1458

Publication/Series

2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2018 - Proceedings

Volume

2018-July

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Physical Geography

Keywords

  • Carbon Cycle
  • Data Assimilation
  • SMOS
  • Vegetation Optical Depth

Conference name

38th Annual IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2018

Conference date

2018-07-22 - 2018-07-27

Conference place

Valencia, Spain

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781538671504