Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1517-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1517-2018
Model description paper
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17 Apr 2018
Model description paper |  | 17 Apr 2018

Assimilating solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence into the terrestrial biosphere model BETHY-SCOPE v1.0: model description and information content

Alexander J. Norton, Peter J. Rayner, Ernest N. Koffi, and Marko Scholze

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GOSAT gridded fluorescence ACOS B3.5 C. Frankenberg https://doi.org/10.22002/D1.921

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It is difficult to estimate how much CO2 plants absorb via photosynthesis and even more difficult to model this for the whole globe. Here, we present a framework to combine a new satellite measurement "solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence" with a global photosynthesis model. We then quantify how this new measurement constrains model uncertainties and find highly effective constraint. These results pave a novel pathway for improving estimates and modelling abilities of photosynthesis globally.