Satellite-inferred European carbon sink larger than expected

Reuter, M.; Buchwitz, M.; Hilker, M.; Heymann, J.; Schneising, O.; Pillai, D.; Bovensmann, H.; Burrows, J. P.; Bösch, H.; Parker, R.; Butz, A.; Hasekamp, O.; O'Dell, C. W.; Yoshida, Y.; Gerbig, C.; Nehrkorn, T.; Deutscher, N. M.; Warneke, T.; Notholt, J.; Hase, F.; Kivi, R.; Sussmann, R.; Machida, T.; Matsueda, H.; Sawa, Y.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13739-2014

Articles | Volume 14, issue 24

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13739-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13739-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 24

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22 Dec 2014

Research article |

| 22 Dec 2014

Satellite-inferred European carbon sink larger than expected

M. Reuter, M. Buchwitz, M. Hilker, J. Heymann, O. Schneising, D. Pillai, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, H. Bösch, R. Parker, A. Butz, O. Hasekamp, C. W. O'Dell, Y. Yoshida, C. Gerbig, T. Nehrkorn, N. M. Deutscher, T. Warneke, J. Notholt, F. Hase, R. Kivi, R. Sussmann, T. Machida, H. Matsueda, and Y. Sawa

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RC C7395: 'overview and comparison with the Fan et al. (1998) paper', Peter Rayner, 25 Sep 2014
- AC C8554: 'Re: RC C7395', Maximilian Reuter, 28 Oct 2014
SC C8037: 'Comment on the large satellite-inferred European carbon sink', Ray Nassar, 15 Oct 2014
- AC C8555: 'Re: SC C8037', Maximilian Reuter, 28 Oct 2014
SC C8413: 'Two weaknesses?', Frederic Chevallier, 22 Oct 2014
- AC C8556: 'Re: SC C8413', Maximilian Reuter, 28 Oct 2014
RC C8569: 'Review', Christian Frankenberg, 28 Oct 2014
- AC C8870: 'Re: RC C8569', Maximilian Reuter, 07 Nov 2014

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Maximilian Reuter on behalf of the Authors (07 Nov 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Nov 2014) by Evangelos Gerasopoulos

AR by Maximilian Reuter on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2014)

Short summary

Current knowledge about the European terrestrial biospheric carbon sink relies upon bottom-up and global surface flux inverse model estimates using in situ measurements. Our analysis of five satellite data sets comprises a regional inversion designed to be insensitive to potential retrieval biases and transport errors. We show that the satellite-derived sink is larger (1.0±0.3GtC/a) than previous estimates (0.4±0.4GtC/a).