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Arctic Whole Air Samples

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Arctic-CAP flights consisted of vertical profile maneuvers from near the surface to 6 km altitude around the ABoVE domain each month. Profiles were flown at each of the 25 locations listed across the top of this figure.

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Atmospheric gas concentrations collected during the Arctic Carbon Aircraft Profile (Arctic-CAP) campaigns are now available.

High Latitude Blue Sky Albedo

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Daily mean shortwave blue sky albedo for February 28, 2000. Blue sky refers to albedo calculated under real-world conditions with a combination of both diffuse and direct lighting based on atmospheric and view-geometry conditions.

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Daily “blue sky” shortwave albedo data were derived from the MODIS bi-directional reflectance distribution function.

Historical and Future Leaching from the Mississippi River Basin

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Spatial distribution of mean dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) leaching (g c/m2/yr) in the 2090s estimated by S(ALL) simulation experiment (including future climate, elevated CO2, and land use changes). Climate change scenarios were derived from three climate models named CCSM3 (panels a and b), ECHAM (c and d), and CCCMA (e and f) under high (A2) and low (B1) emission scenarios, respectively.

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New data from the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) offers insights into how environmental factors affect the dynamics of leaching.

Predicted Annual Soil Respiration from the Carbon Monitoring System

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A global map of predicted annual soil respiration (Rs) at 1 km spatial resolution created by applying the QRF model to gridded covariates. Right is a plot of the latitudinal mean predicted annual Rs.

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A machine learning approach was used to derive the predicted annual soil respiration and uncertainty at a 1 km spatial resolution.

Amazonia Forest Canopy Structure from LiDAR

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Bounding boxes for LiDAR tiles from surveys over western Para, Brazil, are depicted in Google Earth from the KMZ companion file. Each feature in the KMZ provides key metadata about the corresponding tile.

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LiDAR surveys over forest research sites across the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are available.