NASA's Earth Science datasets are used by scientists like Dr. Anthony Walker in terrestrial ecosystem models. These models span spatial scales from leaves to ecosystems to entire landscapes, to gain a systems-level understanding of ecosystem response to global environmental change. Learn more about this Ecosystem Processes Group Leader by reading the NASA Earthdata User Profile: Dr. Anthony Walker .
While Dr. Walker uses a number of NASA data products in his research, he also contributes his research results back to the community as published datasets and has done so since 1998. His most recent dataset publication at the ORNL DAAC is:
Walker, A.P., I. Aranda, A.P. Beckerman, H. Bown, L.A. Cernusak, Q.L. Dang, T.F. Domingues, L. Gu, S. Guo, Q. Han, J. Kattge, M. Kubiske, D. Manter, E. Merilo, G.F. Midgley, A. Porte, J.C. Scales, D. Tissue, T. Turnbull, C. Warren, G. Wohlfahrt, F.I. Woodward, and S.D. Wullschleger. 2014. A Global Data Set of Leaf Photosynthetic Rates, Leaf N and P, and Specific Leaf Area. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1224