The ORNL DAAC announces the release of two data sets from the Carbon category associated with the International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP).
ISLSCP II Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Consumption by Continental Erosion . This data set was prepared by W. Ludwig, P. Amiotte-Suchet, and J.L. Probst, and provides gridded estimates for the riverine export of carbon and of sediments based on empirical models. The data are at 0.5 degree spatial resolution.
ISLSCP II Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuels, Cement, and Gas Flaring . This data set was prepared by R.J. Andres, G. Marland, I. Fung, E. Matthews, and A.L. Brenkert, and contains decadal (1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 1995) estimates of gridded fossil-fuel emissions expressed in 1,000 metric tons C per year. The data are at 1.0 degree spatial resolution.
International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP)
The ISLSCP Initiative II data collection is designed to support modeling studies of the global carbon, water and energy cycle. This data collection contains 50 global time series spanning the ten-year period 1986 to 1995 compiled under the guidance of Forrest Hall and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The data for Initiative II were acquired from a number of U.S. and international agencies, universities, and institutions, then co-registered to equal-angle grids of one degree, one-half and one-quarter degree resolution and reformatted into a common ASCII format.
The collection includes a variety of remotely sensed data sets ranging from visible to microwave wavelengths. The data sets also include improved topography, surface radiation, near-surface meteorology, precipitation, runoff, soils, and vegetation data sets that can be used in a variety of interdisciplinary research activities. Several data sets to support global carbon and biogeochemical studies are also provided.
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.