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Jovan M. Tadić

Actinic Radiation and Photolysis Processes in the Lower Troposphere: Effect of Clouds and Aerosols

Within the German Tropospheric Research Program (TFS) a series of projects were performed focussing on aspects of radiation transfer and the effects of UV-radiation on air chemistry. The individual projects covered laboratory investigations, instrument development for photolysis processes as well as field studies of actinic radiation and comparison to model calculations. One and three-dimensional models were tested against field campaign data. The results confirm the improvement of measurement technology achieved through deployment of new techniques like spectroradiometry that offer a wider range of investigations than was previously attainable using chemical actinometry or fixed wavelength…

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The impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on global photosynthesis using satellite remote sensing

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation exerts a large influence on global climate regimes and on the global carbon cycle. Although El Niño is known to be associated with a reduction of the global total land carbon sink, results based on prognostic models or measurements disagree over the relative contribution of photosynthesis to the reduced sink. Here, we provide an independent remote sensing-based analysis on the impact of the 2015–2016 El Niño on global photosynthesis using six global satellite-based photosynthesis products and a global solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) dataset. An ensemble of satellite-based photosynthesis products showed a negative anomaly of −0.7 ± 1.2 PgC in 2015, but a sli…

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Figure S2 from The impact of the 2015–2016 El Niño on global photosynthesis using satellite remote sensing

The NEP anomalies and the detrended NEP anomalies from 2000 to 2016. NEP is calculated as the net residual land CO2 sink, estimated by the Global Carbon Project (GCP).

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Figure S1 from The impact of the 2015–2016 El Niño on global photosynthesis using satellite remote sensing

The detrended RS GPP and SIF anomalies from 2000 to 2016, using the detrended time-average GPP(SIF) of the same period as the baseline.

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Figure S3 from The impact of the 2015–2016 El Niño on global photosynthesis using satellite remote sensing

Latitudinal distribution of ensembles of air temperature (Tair), precipitation (PP), photosynthetic active radiation (PAR), vegetation indices (VI) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) in 2015 and 2016, using the linear trends of variables from 2000 to 2016 as the baselines. The ensemble of Tair is consisted of CRU, CRU-NCEP, NCEP Reanalysis II, ERAI and MERRA2; the ensemble of PP is consisted of CRU, CRU-NCEP, NCEP Reanalysis II, ERAI, MERRA2 and TRMM; the ensemble of PAR is consisted of CRU, CRU-NCEP and ERAI; the ensemble of VI is consisted of MODIS NDVI, MODIS EVI (only 2015) and AVHRR fAPAR; the ensemble of VPD is consisted of CRU, CRU-NCEP and ERAI. The shadings indicate the inter-dataset…

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Figure S4 from The impact of the 2015–2016 El Niño on global photosynthesis using satellite remote sensing

Uncertainty of GOMEA SIF trend. Blue line is the baseline of GOMEA SIF we used in this study. (a) first two data points were dropped to fit the line; (b) the last two data points were dropped to fit the line; (c) the first and the last data points were dropped to fit the line; (d) One or two data points were randomly dropped in 400 tests to fit the line. In 98.3% of the tests there was a negative detrended SIF anomaly in 2015 and a positive detrended SIF anomaly in 2016.

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