SMOS-IC vegetation optical depth index in monitoring aboveground carbon changes in the tropical continents during 2010–2016
Domain:
environment and energyclimategeospatialRecord type:
paperdataset
Creator:
FanWigMiaRod
Editor:
IntCenDepLab
Publisher:
CCSD
Host:
International audience
Tropical aboveground carbon changes during 2010-2016 were estimated by a newly developed vegetation optical depth (VOD) product retrieved from the low-frequency L-band (1.4 GHz) passive microwave observations from the Soil Moisture and Ocean salinity (SMOS) satellite. The aboveground carbon changes estimated by VOD in the tropical region during 2010-2016 indicate the tropical region acts as a net carbon source of 111 Tg C yr-1 during 2010-2016. The declines in tropical aboveground carbon were found mainly in eastern America, African drylands and Indonesia.
Similar
Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El NiñoPredicted Aboveground Vegetation Carbon Stocks in the Diouroup and Ndiago Communes, SenegalFirst Retrievals of ASCAT IB VOD (Vegetation Optical Depth) at Global ScaleASCAT IB: A radar-based vegetation optical depth retrieved from the ASCAT scatterometer satelliteClimatic and Vegetation Response Patterns over South Africa during the 2010/2011 and 2015/2016 Strong ENSO PhasesMeasurement of aerosol optical depth and sub-visual cloud detection using the optical depth sensor (ODS)