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Forest Change From Canopy Cover Loss from 1986-2010

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North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) attribution type layer illustrating the type of change event where all events from 1986-2010 were combined. Source: Schleeweis et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1799

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The North American Forest Dynamics Attribution product provides information depicting forest change across 258 million ha of the conterminous U.S.

High-Resolution Sub-Daily Climate Driver Data for Western US

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Four variables for the same 3-hour timestep, December 8, 2015, 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM, a) precipitation flux (kg m-2 s-1) b) air temperature (K) c) shortwave radiation flux (W m-2) d) specific humidity. Source: western_USA_precipitation_3hr_2015-12.nc4

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High-resolution climate data inputs are now available for 11 states in the western U.S.

Ranking Forest Land for Carbon Sequestration/Species Richness

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Forested land in the western conterminous United States classified by priority for preservation to mitigate climate change, based on the spatial co-occurrence of vulnerability to drought and fire and potential carbon sequestration. Source: Buotte et al. 2020

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Ranking of forest lands for preservation given net ecosystem productivity was derived from the Community Land Model.

Growth Measurements of White Spruce in the Arctic

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A white spruce tree is instrumented with a hemispherical and field-stop photochemical reflectance index (PRI) sensor and point dendrometer at a northern treeline site along the Dalton Highway, Brooks Range, Alaska. Source: Eitel et al., 2020

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Field measurements of white spruce photochemical reflectance and radial tree growth are available from the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).

ORNL DAAC Tool Provides Updated SMAP NEE Data

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Level 4 SMAP Net Ecosystem Exchange (SPL4CMDL) Global daily 9km Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) mean subset for the Colorado Slate River Crested Butte site as graphed from the Fixed Sites Subsets Tool.

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The ORNL DAAC's Fixed Sites Subsets Tool now provides updated version 5 of the SPL4CMDL carbon product.

Sectored Annual and Hourly Estimates of CO2 from 2010-2015

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Vulcan v3.0 FFCO2 annual total emissions (tC/km2/year) for the United States in 2011 at a 1 km resolution.  Source: Figure 3(a) in Gurney et al., 2020.

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Two new datasets provide high-resolution estimates of carbon dioxide sector emissions from fossil fuels and cement production for the USA.

Tidal Wetlands Productivity for Conterminous US Based on Blue Carbon

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Example of average daily gross primary production (GPP) per m2 at 250 m resolution shown for wetlands in the North and South Ten Thousand Islands in the Florida Everglades. Mapped values are an average of all 16-day periods from 2000-2019. Source: Feagin et al., 2020.

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Tidal wetland gross primary production estimates across the Conterminous US derived with the spatially-explicit Blue Carbon model.

Greenhouse Gases Measured from Instrumented Communication Towers

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The communication tower at the Wessington, South Dakota site. This site was instrumented from January of 2017 to September of 2019.

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Level 1 atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are available for towers across the central and eastern USA.