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Jonas Ardö

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Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity for Africa using eddy covariance data

Författare

  • Martin Sjöström
  • M. Zhao
  • S. Archibald
  • Almut Arneth
  • B. Cappelaere
  • U. Falk
  • A. de Grandcourt
  • N. Hanan
  • L. Kergoat
  • W. Kutsch
  • L. Merbold
  • E. Mougin
  • A. Nickless
  • Y. Nouvellon
  • R. J. Scholes
  • E. M. Veenendaal
  • Jonas Ardö
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Summary, in English

MOD17A2 provides operational gross primary production (GPP) data globally at 1 km spatial resolution and 8-day temporal resolution. MOD17A2 estimates GPP according to the light use efficiency (LUE) concept assuming a fixed maximum rate of carbon assimilation per unit photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by the vegetation (epsilon(max)). Minimum temperature and vapor pressure deficit derived from meteorological data down-regulate epsilon(max) and constrain carbon assimilation. This data is useful for regional to global studies of the terrestrial carbon budget, climate change and natural resources. In this study we evaluated the MOD17A2 product and its driver data by using in situ measurements of meteorology and eddy covariance GPP for 12 African sites. MOD17A2 agreed well with eddy covariance GPP for wet sites. Overall, seasonality was well captured but MOD17A2 GPP was underestimated for the dry sites located in the Sahel region. Replacing the meteorological driver data derived from coarse resolution reanalysis data with tower measurements reduced MOD17A2 GPP uncertainties, however, the underestimations at the dry sites persisted. Inferred epsilon(max) calculated from tower data was higher than the epsilon(max) prescribed in MOD17A2. This, in addition to uncertainties in fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR) explains some of the underestimations. The results suggest that improved quality of driver data, but primarily a readjustment of the parameters in the biome parameter look-up table (BPLUT) may be needed to better estimate GPP for African ecosystems in MOD17A2. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

275-286

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volym

131

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Physical Geography

Nyckelord

  • Remote sensing
  • Africa
  • Gross primary production (GPP)
  • Moderate
  • Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
  • MOD17A2
  • CarboAfrica
  • AMMA

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • remote sensing

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0034-4257