The ORNL DAAC announces the availability of a global data set containing approximately 1000 estimates of leaf area index (LAI) for a variety of biomes and land cover types.

The ORNL DAAC announces the release of 26 data sets from the BOREAS (Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study) Follow-On project.

The ORNL DAAC now offers data from EUROFLUX and AmeriFlux sites.

Data and images are now available from the Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE), a field campaign conducted in May 1997 at the Jornada Experimental Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The ORNL DAAC's operational web server will be down on Wednesday morning, May 18, from 8:00 until noon, for a scheduled system upgrade. Please visit us again when the server comes back on line.

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The ORNL DAAC announces the release of two new data sets and two revised data sets from Phase 2 of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP).

The ORNL DAAC has released a data set entitled "Global Gridded Surfaces of Selected Soil Characteristics (IGBP-DIS)." The data surfaces were generated by the SoilData System, which was developed by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Data and Information Services (DIS).

The ORNL DAAC announces the release of data from the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP).

Regional and global biogeochemical dynamics data can now be located and acquired through a metadata search system at the ORNL DAAC.

The ORNL DAAC recently released six additional data sets from the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS).