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Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2599-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2599-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
Methods for assessment of models
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30 Mar 2022
Methods for assessment of models |  | 30 Mar 2022

Constraining a land cover map with satellite-based aboveground biomass estimates over Africa

Guillaume Marie, B. Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Cecile Dardel, Thuy Le Toan, Alexandre Bouvet, Stéphane Mermoz, Ludovic Villard, Vladislav Bastrikov, and Philippe Peylin

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Most Earth system models make use of vegetation maps to initialize a simulation at global scale. Satellite-based biomass map estimates for Africa were used to estimate cover fractions for the 15 land cover classes. This study successfully demonstrates that satellite-based biomass maps can be used to better constrain vegetation maps. Applying this approach at the global scale would increase confidence in assessments of present-day biomass stocks.
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