Accurate estimation of terrestrial gross primary productivity (
Recent advances in satellite observations of solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) provide a new opportunity to constrain the simulation of terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP). Accurate representation of the processes driving SIF emission and its radiative transfer to remote sensing sensors is an essential prerequisite for data assimilation. Recently, SIF simulations have been incorporated into several land surface models, but the scaling of SIF from leaf‐level to canopy‐level is usually not well‐represented. Here, we incorporate the simulation of far‐red SIF observed at nadir into the Community Land Model version 5 (CLM5). Leaf‐level fluorescence yield was simulated by a parametric simplification of the Soil Canopy‐Observation of Photosynthesis and Energy fluxes model (SCOPE). And an efficient and accurate method based on escape probability is developed to scale SIF from leaf‐level to top‐of‐canopy while taking clumping and the radiative transfer processes into account. SIF simulated by CLM5 and SCOPE agreed well at sites except one in needleleaf forest (
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10374916
- Publisher / Repository:
- DOI PREFIX: 10.1029
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 1942-2466
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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