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Integrating Remote Sensing, Field Observations, and Models to Understand Disturbance and Climate Effects on the Carbon Balance of the West Coast U.S., Final Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1026419· OSTI ID:1026419
As an element of NACP research, the proposed investigation is a two pronged approach that derives and evaluates a regional carbon (C) budget for Oregon, Washington, and California. Objectives are (1) Use multiple data sources, including AmeriFlux data, inventories, and multispectral remote sensing data to investigate trends in carbon storage and exchanges of CO2 and water with variation in climate and disturbance history; (2) Develop and apply regional modeling that relies on these multiple data sources to reduce uncertainty in spatial estimates of carbon storage and NEP, and relative contributions of terrestrial ecosystems and anthropogenic emissions to atmospheric CO2 in the region; (3) Model terrestrial carbon processes across the region, using the Biome-BGC terrestrial ecosystem model, and an atmospheric inverse modeling approach to estimate variation in rate and timing of terrestrial uptake and feedbacks to the atmosphere in response to climate and disturbance.
Research Organization:
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE SC Office of Biological and Environmental Research (SC-23)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-07ER64361
OSTI ID:
1026419
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/64361-4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Decadal trends in net ecosystem production and net ecosystem carbon balance for a regional socioecological system journal October 2011