Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2021)

Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling

  • Mallory L. Barnes,
  • Martha M. Farella,
  • Russell L. Scott,
  • David J. P. Moore,
  • Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos,
  • Joel A. Biederman,
  • Natasha MacBean,
  • Marcy E. Litvak,
  • David D. Breshears

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00308-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Upscaling in situ carbon flux measurements using remotely sensed and meteorological observations in a machine learning algorithm leads to improved estimates of average uptake, and interannual variability in global drylands.