The Quantitative Ecosystem Dynamics Lab

UC Berkeley: Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Berkeley National Lab: Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division

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CEDAR: Estimating photosynthetic carbon uptake, everywhere, all the time

Monthly ecosystem carbon assimilation via photosynthesis, estimated through combining distributed eddy-covariance observations, machine learning and satellite remote sensing retrievals.

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gC m-2 day-1

Data & Citation

Data coverage: Monthly, 0.05^o spatial resolution.

Data Download:
Zenodo record 11238533

Publication:
Kang, M. et al. (2025). CEDAR-GPP: a global, observation-driven dataset of gross primary productivity from 1982 to 2020. Earth System Science Data, 17, 3009-3031. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3009-2025



FluxPulse: New inference from improved data processing

FluxPulse lets users upgrade the standard eddy-covariance processing with a particular focus on hard-to-capture responses to rain pulses, and examine how improved flux workflows change interpreted ecosystem signals. Explore spatial and temporal patterns directly in the app, then compare outcomes across processing choices for deeper interpretation.

Open FluxPulse

Data Download & Citation

Data Download: FluxPulse GitHub repository

Publication: Nguyen, N. et al. (2025). Widespread underestimation of rain-induced soil carbon emissions from global drylands. Nature Geoscience, 18, 869–876. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01754-9