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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.

Canopy Structure in the Great Smoky Mountains

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This overview map shows thirty unique vegetation canopy structure classes identified within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina, USA.

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This revised dataset characterizes canopy structure based on LiDAR surveys of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Year-round Data from Alaskan Flux Towers

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Three tower sites at Barrow, Alaska: Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) tower, Biocomplexity Experiment, South (BES) tower, and the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) tower.

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NASA's ABoVE campaign provides year-round CO2, CH4, and meteorology at five sites on Alaska's North Slope.

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Daymet Climatologies Updated

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Daymet V3 average annual minimum temperature for 1980 and 2015 for a subset of the Daymet domain in Alaska and western Canada.

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Daymet V3 annual and monthly climatologies for minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, and vapor pressure have been updated to include year 2017.