The ORNL DAAC is pleased to announce the release of MODIS-derived Biophysical Parameters for 5-km Land Cover, North America, 2000-2012 . This data set was prepared by K. Zhao and R.B. Jackson and provides MODIS-derived surface biophysical climatologies of BRDF and includes: BDRF/albedo, land surface temperature (LST), leaf area index (LAI), and evapotranspiration (ET) as separate files for each of the MODIS land cover types for North America. Additionally, radiative forcing data files for four scenarios of potential vegetation shifts in North America, a file containing diffuse fraction of surface downward solar radiation (DiffuseFraction) at a monthly scale, and a file of snow water equivalent (SWE) are provided. Each biophysical variable has temporal periods that represent the average of all 8-day periods from the years 2000 – 2012, and a spatial resolution of 0.05 degree (~5 km) covering the land area of North America, from 20 to 60 degrees N.
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.