Forest stand age information improves an inverse North American carbon flux estimate

Atmospheric inversions have become an important tool in quantifying carbon dioxide (CO2) sinks and sources at a variety of spatiotemporal scales, but associated large uncertainties restrain the inversion research community from reaching agreements on many important subjects. We enhanced an atmospheric inversion of the CO2 flux for North America by introducing spatially-explicit information on forest stand age for US and Canada as an additional …