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Greenhouse Gas Concentrations for Six US Cities

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Carbon dioxide concentrations at the MUR site in Salt Lake City, Utah, show a pronounced seasonal pattern of higher CO2 in the winter months.

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Hourly urban greenhouse gas measurements are available for cities in the CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis (CO2-USA) Data Synthesis Network.

Subsistence Use Areas in Alaska

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Combined map of subsistence resource use areas of Interior Alaskan communities with (1) points marking harvest effort locations, (2) polygons indicating harvest effort areas, and (3) lines indicating linear harvesting activity.

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Maps of the search and harvest areas used by residents of Interior Alaska are available.

Soil Organic Carbon in Tidal Wetlands

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Estuaries classes used in the study: former river valley primary estuary, former glacier valley primary estuary, river delta primary estuary, tectonic structural primary estuary, coastal lagoon secondary estuary, and unclassified estuary.

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Soil organic carbon (SOC) estimates and environmental data for US estuaries are available for the period 1972-2015.

Vegetation Imagery from Toolik Lake, Alaska

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A plot photo (#0656) taken at the largest study area 'Toolik' at elevation 765.7 m. The small white object was included in many of the photos as a color reference. The photographer's boots are also often visible, in this photo they are to the lower left of the white object.

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A new ABoVE dataset offers hundreds of ground-based vegetation photos which may serve as a reference for studies of climate and vegetation change in the area.

New Data from the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission

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The Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission is an Earth Venture Suborbital-2 mission to measure greenhouse gases and human-produced air pollution in remote areas.

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Five new datasets from ATom provide measurements of greenhouse gases and human-produced air pollution from 2016 to 2018.

Tracking Fires in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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The area burned in 1997 and 1998 in the Mawas area, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia is shown in pink. The inset with white dot shows the location of Mawas study site on the Island of Borneo.

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Maps of annual burned area from 1997 to 2015 show the extent of fires in the Mawas region of Central Kalimantan.