ESTIMATION OF TIME DEPENDENT CARBON TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS USING NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE DATA

Time dependent carbon transfer coefficients are estimated using ecosystem exchange databy minimizing over variable observational intervals,Kalman filter,and variational minimization techniques.Transfer coefficients are determined by application of estimation procedures to subintervalsfrom a partition of the observational time period,minimizing the variance of analyzed errors withoutthe imposition of a priori transfer coefficient models in Kalman filters,and minimization with respectto transfer coefficients in variational fit-to-data functionals.Results are compared between methodsand seasonal variability is observed in the transfer coefficients.