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Climate and Productivity of Arctic Tundra

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Arctic biweekly NDVI (green bars) and trend (grey bars) for full tundra for 1999-2015. Biweekly trends statistically significant at the 95% level or greater are marked with an asterisk on the x-axis. From Figure 9 (c) Bhatt et al. (2017) (see dataset documentation).

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NASA's ABoVE provides standardized data on potential climate drivers for productivity of Arctic tundra vegetation.

Mapping Surface Waters from ABoVE

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Orthomosaic imagery taken from a Beechcraft Super King Air B200 aircraft traveling north of the Mackenzie River in the Dehcho Region of Canada.

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NASA's 2017 ABoVE airborne campaign provides high-resolution, georeferenced, three-band orthomosaics of digital imagery to validate maps of Arctic surface water extent.

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High-Resolution Permafrost Maps for Western Alaska

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High-resolution elevation maps, based on LiDAR, were used to model the distribution of permafrost across the Y-K Delta of Alaska. The map insets show detail for areas of relative high elevation (left) and low elevation (right).

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Scientists with NASA's ABoVE field campaign modeled the distribution of permafrost across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska.

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Feedbacks Between Climate and Alaskan Wildlife

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Anne Nolin collects data on snowpack properties as part of a NASA ABoVE study examining how changing snow conditions affect Dall sheep in Wrangell St-Elias National Park, 20 March 2017. (Photo courtesy of Laura Prugh)

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Scientists with NASA's ABoVE field campaign are studying links between snowpack properties and Dall sheep populations and movement.

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Wildfire Burn Severity Across Alaska and Canada

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The differenced Normalized Burned Ratio (dNBR) for a burn scar from fires in 2015 within ABoVE grid tile Bh05Bv03. A higher dNBR indicates a higher fire severity.

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New data from NASA's ABoVE campaign provides a high-resolution record of differenced Normalized Burned Ratio (dNBR) for fires from 1985-2015.