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@article{Foster:2014:10.5194/bg-11-3437-2014,
author = {Foster, PN and Prentice, IC and Morfopoulos, C and Siddall, M and van, Weele M},
doi = {10.5194/bg-11-3437-2014},
journal = {Biogeosciences},
pages = {3437--3451},
title = {Isoprene emissions track the seasonal cycle of canopy temperature, not primary production: evidence from remote sensing},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3437-2014},
volume = {11},
year = {2014}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Isoprene is important in atmospheric chemistry, but its seasonal emission pattern – especially in the tropics, where most isoprene is emitted – is incompletely understood. We set out to discover generalized relationships applicable across many biomes between large-scale isoprene emission and a series of potential predictor variables, including both observed and model-estimated variables related to gross primary production (GPP) and canopy temperature. We used remotely sensed atmospheric concentrations of formaldehyde, an intermediate oxidation product of isoprene, as a proxy for isoprene emission in 22 regions selected to span high to low latitudes, to sample major biomes, and to minimize interference from pyrogenic sources of volatile organic compounds that could interfere with the isoprene signal. Formaldehyde concentrations showed the highest average seasonal correlations with remotely sensed (r = 0.85) and model-estimated (r = 0.80) canopy temperatures. Both variables predicted formaldehyde concentrations better than air temperature (r= 0.56) and a "reference" isoprene model that combines GPP and an exponential function of temperature (r = 0.49), and far better than either remotely sensed green vegetation cover, fPAR (r = 0.25) or model-estimated GPP (r = 0.14). Gross primary production in tropical regions was anti-correlated with formaldehyde concentration (r = −0.30), which peaks during the dry season. Our results were most reliable in the tropics, where formaldehyde observational errors were the least. The tropics are of particular interest because they are the greatest source of isoprene emission as well as the region where previous modelling attempts have been least successful. We conjecture that positive correlations of isoprene emission with GPP and air temperature (as found in temperate forests) may arise simply because both covary with canopy temperature, peaking during the relatively short growing season. The lack of a gener
AU - Foster,PN
AU - Prentice,IC
AU - Morfopoulos,C
AU - Siddall,M
AU - van,Weele M
DO - 10.5194/bg-11-3437-2014
EP - 3451
PY - 2014///
SN - 1726-4170
SP - 3437
TI - Isoprene emissions track the seasonal cycle of canopy temperature, not primary production: evidence from remote sensing
T2 - Biogeosciences
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3437-2014
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UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/69646
VL - 11
ER -
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