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ABoVE: Tundra Plant Leaf-level Spectral Reflectance

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-07-18
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Schematic of FluoWat leaf clip operation for measuring leaf reflectance, transmittance, and upward and downward fluorescence (SIF). The leaf is placed in the clip and illuminated through the open port (A). Reflected and transmitted radiance are measured by attaching a fiber optic cable from the spectrometer to the top or bottom of the clip. To measure fluorescence spectra a low pass filter is placed across the illumination port (B). Two filters are applied in sequence, they block incident wavelengths above 650 nm and 700 nm, therefore any radiance measured in the longer wavelengths can come only from fluorescence.

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Leaf-level variables of high latitude plant samples collected near Fairbanks, Utqiagvik, and Toolik, Alaska, U.S., during the summers of 2019, 2020, and 2021.
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ABoVE: Landsat Vegetation Greenness Trends, 1985-2019

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-07-18
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Change in greenness of boreal forest across the northern hemisphere between 2000 to 2019, estimated from an ensemble of vegetation indices derived from Landsat imagery. 

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Interannual trends in annual maximum vegetation greenness from 1985 to 2019 for recently undisturbed areas in the boreal forest biome.
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ABoVE: Projection of Permafrost Thaw

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-07-10
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Changes in simulated permafrost dynamics. Simulated cumulative changes in (A and B) permafrost area for active layer thickness (ALT) less than 3 m from 2010-2299 and (C and D) the sensitivity of simulated changes in permafrost area to changes in mean annual air temperature for RCP4.5 (left column) and RCP8.5 (right column) model projections. 

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Model projections from 1901 to 2299 for the northern hemisphere permafrost domain.
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ABoVE: TVPRM Simulated NEE, Alaskan North Slope, 2008-2017

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-04-26
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TVPRM net ecosystem exchange: Surface upward mass flux of carbon dioxide expressed as carbon due to emissions from natural sources for 2015-07-01 (left) and 2015-10-01 (right).

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Hourly NEE simulated by the TVPRM at 30 km horizontal resolution for the Alaskan North Slope for 2008-2017.
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ABoVE: Annual Disturbance Agents, 1987-2012

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-03-31
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Casual agents of disturbance for the year 2006 in the ABoVE domain for tile BH19V15 (A) with the Tasseled Cap change (dTC) image in the same year for the same region (B). In the dTC image, Band_1 is change in brightness; Band_2 is change in greenness; Band_3 is change in wetness. The pixel resolution is 30 meters.

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Spatial data on disturbance agents of fire, insects, and logging in the ABoVE core domain at an annual time step from 1987-2012 and 30 m resolution.
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Lake & Wetland Classification, Alaska & Canada, 2017-2019

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-03-22
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Figure 1. A preliminary wetland classification for Canadian Shield lakes north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. Missing data in some lakes appear as white spots

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High-resolution land cover classification focused on water and wetland vegetation classes over three NASA ABoVE Campaign regions.
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PhotoSpec Products, 2019 & 2020 Spring Transition Season

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-03-09
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Diagram of the field set-up. This dataset provides the products collected using PhotoSpec mounted at the top of the tower. Measurements collected from other instrumentation shown are not provided in this dataset. Source: Pierrat et al., 2021

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Daily averaged SIF, relative SIF, and chlorophyll-carotenoid index, as well as three more variables for both black spruce and larch targets.
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