The ORNL DAAC announces that the second CD-ROM volume prepared for the Southern African Regional Science Initiative (“SAFARI 2000”) is now available to the public.

The ORNL DAAC now offers a Web map server to help users choose sites that have subsets of MODIS satellite imagery.

The ORNL DAAC has developed a Web map server to help users locate flux tower sites from around the world.

Users can choose from more than 210 sites in the FLUXNET global network and retrieve information about site characteristics and any available flux data.

Beginning at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, June 14, 2003, the ORNL DAAC's Web and FTP sites will be unavailable because of an equipment move. The outage is expected to last from 4 to 12 hours.

The ORNL DAAC has released six data sets from the Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE), which was conducted on a grassland-shrub site in New Mexico in May 1997.

April 21, 2003:

The ORNL DAAC has released a global data set pertaining to fluxes of carbon dioxide and water from vegetation.

The ORNL DAAC announces the release of four global data sets on root characteristics. The data were compiled from a variety of scientific literature dating as far back as the 1950s.

The ORNL DAAC announces the release of two U.S. data products in its Vegetation Collections.

The ORNL DAAC has released a net primary productivity (NPP) data set pertaining to the mortality of woody biomass in eastern U.S. forests.