New Study Uses OCO Data to Examine the African Carbon Cycle

A new study by Yun and co-authors uses OCO data to examine the African carbon cycle in unprecedented detail. Scientists previously suspected that temperature was the prime factor influencing plant growth and therefore carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, these researchers found that in Africa, moisture levels have a much bigger impact.

Read the article: Interannual Variability in African Regional Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes and their Drivers Revealed by Satellite Observations

See also this high level perspective: Satellite data reveal African grasslands' carbon uptake rises with rainfall, unlike forests and savannas