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Research article
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Research article |
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Linking global terrestrial CO2 fluxes and environmental drivers: inferences from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 satellite and terrestrial biospheric models
Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Junjie Liu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Daven K. Henze
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Deborah N. Huntzinger
School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Kelley C. Wells
Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, USA
Stephen Sitch
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Pierre Friedlingstein
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Emilie Joetzjer
Centre National de Recherche Météorologique, Unité mixte de recherche 3589 Meteo-France/CNRS, 42 Avenue Gaspard Coriolis, 31100 Toulouse, France
Vladislav Bastrikov
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, CE Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Daniel S. Goll
Université Paris-Saclay, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, LSCE/IPSL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Vanessa Haverd
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, G.P.O. Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Atul K. Jain
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Etsushi Kato
Institute of Applied Energy (IAE), Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0003, Japan
Sebastian Lienert
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Danica L. Lombardozzi
Terrestrial Sciences Section, Climate and Global Dynamics, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Patrick C. McGuire
Department of Meteorology, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Joe R. Melton
Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Julia E. M. S. Nabel
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Benjamin Poulter
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Hanqin Tian
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn, AL, USA
Andrew J. Wiltshire
Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK
Sönke Zaehle
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, P.O. Box 600164, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Scot M. Miller
Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Short summary
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) satellite observes atmospheric CO2 globally. We use a multiple regression and inverse model to quantify the relationships between OCO-2 and environmental drivers within individual years for 2015–2018 and within seven global biomes. Our results point to limitations of current space-based observations for inferring environmental relationships but also indicate the potential to inform key relationships that are very uncertain in process-based models.
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) satellite observes atmospheric CO2 globally. We use...
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