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CH4 emissions from Northern Europe wetlands: compared data assimilation approaches
Guillaume Monteil
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Jalisha Theanutti Kallingal
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Marko Scholze
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Our study combines two data assimilation techniques to refine CH4 emission estimates from natural wetlands in Norther Europe, combining parameter estimation of a vegetation model using eddy-covariance CH4 flux measurements, and inverse modelling using atmospheric CH4 measurements. We find a good complementarity between the two approaches, with the combined product leading to the overall best fit to observations, and arguably most realistic wetland CH4 emission estimate.
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