An Overview of Terra Mission Results Related to the Carbon Cycle

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ID5877591
AuthorsMarc L Imhoff (Goddard Space Flight Center), Robert Wolfe (0000-0002-1314-3866), Robert E Wolfe (0000-0002-0915-1855, Goddard Space Flight Center), David J Diner (0000-0001-8102-7616, Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Mark Chopping (0000-0001-9622-2772, Montclair State University), Ralph Kahn, Ralph A Kahn (0000-0002-5234-6359, Goddard Space Flight Center), Vincent Salomonson, V V Salomonson (University of Utah), John Gille, J C Gille (NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research), James Drummond (0000-0002-0401-4851), J R Drummond (0000-0002-7120-7434, Dalhousie University), Don Raymond Edwards (0000-0003-1618-541X, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research), David Edwards (0000-0002-0383-8314), Norm Loeb (Langley Research Center), Bruce Wielicki, Bruce A Wielicki (0000-0002-4976-0110, Langley Research Center), Michael J Abrams (0000-0003-1864-1706, Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Michael Abrams, Bjorn Eng, Bjorn T Eng (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Si‐chee Tsay (Goddard Space Flight Center), K J Ranson (0000-0003-3806-7270, Goddard Space Flight Center)
Year2009
Volume3
Issue2
Pages536-559
Publication date2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00183.x
OpenAlexW2049456504
LanguageEN
References cited50

Launched in December 1999 as the Earth Observing System's flagship observatory, the Terra Mission (formerly EOS AM-1) carries a suite of five instruments that collect comprehensive global measurements of earth's atmosphere, cryosphere, lands, and oceans. One of the mission's science goals is the collection of data that will enable a better quantitative understanding of earth's carbon cycle through direct observation of atmospheric constituents and the provision of spatially explicit information about biophysical surface properties useful for modeling. In this article, highlights of the mission's use of five main instruments (ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS, and MOPITT) to address various aspects of the carbon cycle are reviewed, using examples of earth's photosynthetic production on land, vegetation structure and ecosystem response, and the extent and frequency of fires and their contribution of aerosols and carbon emissions to the atmosphere

Carbon cycle · Cryosphere · Earth observation · Earth science · Earth system science · Ecosystem · Geography · Meteorology · Observatory · Remote sensing · Satellite · Sea ice · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols · Engineering · Environmental Science · Fire effects on ecosystems · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography

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