What is global photosynthesis? History, uncertainties and opportunities

Y Ryu, JA Berry, DD Baldocchi - Remote sensing of environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying global terrestrial photosynthesis is essential to understanding the global carbon
cycle and the climate system. Remote sensing has played a pivotal role in advancing our …

Reducing aerosol forcing uncertainty by combining models with satellite and within‐the‐atmosphere observations: A three‐way street

RA Kahn, E Andrews, CA Brock, M Chin… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its
magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20 years despite considerable …

Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures

Y Zeng, D Hao, T Park, P Zhu, A Huete… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Vegetation 'greenness' characterized by spectral vegetation indices (VIs) is an integrative
measure of vegetation leaf abundance, biochemical properties and pigment composition …

Out of the blue: Volcanic SO2 emissions during the 2021–2022 eruptions of Hunga Tonga—Hunga Ha'apai (Tonga)

SA Carn, NA Krotkov, BL Fisher, C Li - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most volcanism on Earth is submarine, but volcanic gas emissions by submarine eruptions
are rarely observed and hence largely unquantified. On 15 January 2022 a submarine …

OC-SMART: A machine learning based data analysis platform for satellite ocean color sensors

Y Fan, W Li, N Chen, JH Ahn, YJ Park, S Kratzer… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
We introduce a new platform, Ocean Color-Simultaneous Marine and Aerosol Retrieval Tool
(OC-SMART), for analysis of data obtained by satellite ocean color sensors. OC-SMART is a …

Estimation of canopy photon recollision probability from airborne laser scanning

S He, J Qi, D Wang, K Yan, H Huang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The past two decades have witnessed the widespread application of the spectral invariant
theory (p-theory) in modeling the shortwave radiation absorbed or scattered by vegetation …

Observation and modeling of the historic “Godzilla” African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and the southern US in June 2020

H Yu, Q Tan, L Zhou, Y Zhou, H Bian… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
This study characterizes a massive African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and
southern US in June 2020, which is nicknamed the “Godzilla” dust plume, using a …

Stratospheric injection of massive smoke plume from Canadian boreal fires in 2017 as seen by DSCOVR‐EPIC, CALIOP, and OMPS‐LP observations

O Torres, PK Bhartia, G Taha, H Jethva… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A carbonaceous aerosol plume associated with wildfires in British Columbia in August 2017
reached the stratosphere a few days following the fires onset. The Earth Polychromatic …

Potential of hotspot solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence for better tracking terrestrial photosynthesis

D Hao, GR Asrar, Y Zeng, X Yang, X Li… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Remote sensing of solar‐induced fluorescence (SIF) opens a new window for quantifying a
key ecological variable, the terrestrial ecosystem gross primary production (GPP), because …