Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2016-06-27
The Suomi-NPP satellite captured this image of active fires near Fort McMurray, Canada, in May 2016 (image credit: NASA Earth Observatory).
ABoVE aims to unravel the ways changes in boreal forests affect climate.
Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2017-06-27
Mean net ecosystem production for 2006-2010 (from Turner et al., 2016).
Net ecosystem production (NEP) for the 2006–2010 interval on Pacific Northwest forestland reveals an overall carbon sink throughout the region.
Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2016-06-20
MODIS true-color, cloud-free composite of the northern hemisphere in 2001. The circumpolar taiga–tundra ecotone benchmarked in this study is about 13,400 km long (Image source: NASA).
Ranson et al. used MODIS data to map tree cover at the Earth's longest vegetation transition zone.
Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2016-06-14
May 2016 UWG Meeting at Goddard Space Flight Center
The ORNL DAAC User Working Group met at Goddard Space Flight Center on May 23rd - 25th, 2016.
Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2016-03-10
Large sections of exposed permafrost are visible after a portion of Alaska's coastal tundra collapsed. (Photo by USGS Alaska Science Center.)
The warming of permafrost soils is expected to increase methane and carbon dioxide emissions.
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