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Tidal Wetlands Productivity for Conterminous US Based on Blue Carbon

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Example of average daily gross primary production (GPP) per m2 at 250 m resolution shown for wetlands in the North and South Ten Thousand Islands in the Florida Everglades. Mapped values are an average of all 16-day periods from 2000-2019. Source: Feagin et al., 2020.

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Tidal wetland gross primary production estimates across the Conterminous US derived with the spatially-explicit Blue Carbon model.

MODIS-Derived Snowmelt Timing Maps, Version 2

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Mean snowmelt Day of Year (DOY) for the years 2001-2018 for North America. The DOY values for snowmelt timing were identified by observing the transition from snow-cover to no-snow for individual MODIS pixels throughout the annual melt period.

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The second version of snowmelt timing maps for North America is available for the period 2001 through 2018.

Temporal Dynamics of Lake Area in the Arctic

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Near-daily CubeSat imagery was collected within four large regions across the ABoVE study area. Timeseries of lake area were derived from the CubeSat imagery for more than 80,000 lakes in these regions.

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Near-daily CubeSat imagery provides information on the seasonal dynamics of more than 80,000 lakes.