In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, the IPCC estimate of carbon storage potential is about 587 million tons, while Asner's measurements show it to be about 395 million tons. (treehugger.com)
Analyzing «greenness» data collected from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor on the NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), the researchers identified Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri as the states with having the highest carbon storage potential by converting croplands to newly developed forests. (news.mongabay.com)
The most sophisticated models factor in plant growth to calculate carbon storage potential, but these models were inaccurate when it came to tree growth in the regions that Anderegg and his team studied. (sciencemag.org)