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 Edgar 3 Gridded Greenhouse and Ozone Precursor Gas Emissions. Data set prepared by J.G. Olivier. The EDGAR (Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research) database project is a comprehensive task carried out jointly by the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). For the ISLSCP Initiative II data collection, global annual anthropogenic emissions for the greenhouse gases Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), and Nitrous oxide (N2O) are provided on a 1.0 degree by 1.0 degree grid for the years 1970, 1980, 1990, and 1995 and for the tropospheric ozone precursor gases Carbon monoxide (CO), Nitrogen oxide (NOx), Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds (NMVOC), and Volatile Organic Compounds) and Sulfur dioxide (SO2) for the years 1990 and 1995.
ISLSCP II Global Primary Production Data Initiative Gridded NPP Data . Data set prepared by S.D. Prince and D. Zheng. This data set contains data for above ground and total Net Primary Production (NPP) data.
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.