Quality assured estimates of forest gross primary production :Integration of flux tower data and a process-based simulator

Abstract

Thesis provides the detailed method for quantifying the prior distribution of each BIOME-BGC parameter based on literature review and field inventory data; provides procedures for partitioning of GPP with the associated uncertainty from flux tower measurements of net ecosystem exchange; provides the quantification of posterior uncertainty in BIOME-BGC input parameters and simulated GPP by integrating flux tower GPP into BIOME-BGC using a Bayesian statistical method.