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Active-sensor CALIOP LiDAR reconstructs Arctic net primary production during the low-light winter-shoulder, increasing winter-half observational coverage to ~70–75% and revealing widespread production.
- Why it matters: Passive ocean-color methods miss winter-shoulder productivity because they need sufficient solar illumination, leaving Arctic seasonal carbon fixation poorly constrained.
- What they did: Using 2.39 million CALIOP profiles (2006–2023), the bio-optical model was trained with MODIS-constrained illuminated observations, then applied with explicit light constraints to estimate low-light NPP.
- The result: Pan-Arctic NPP over the winter half-year increased at ~0.75 Tg C year -1 from 2007–2023, raising annual Arctic NPP by ~13.3% versus passive-sensor signals.
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