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MODIS-derived Forest Radiation Data for Brazil

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Average daily net radiation for the 8-day timestep, 2000-03-29 to 2000-04-06, in the upper Xingu River Basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, study area.

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Three MODIS products were used to derive daily average land surface net radiation for the forests of the upper Xingu River Basin in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Highlights from the Literature

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Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) relies on pollinators for movement of its pollen, and evidence suggests that its populations are declining. Image courtesy of Pixabay.

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Daymet daily surface weather and climatological summaries have been cited in nearly 300 peer-reviewed articles. Read about how this popular data product is used in research.

Vegetation Changes Along Alaskan Rivers

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Riverbank erosion and vegetation colonization at the Yukon River 1 study area, located along the Middle Yukon River between Circle and Fort Yukon, Alaska, from 1985-2017.

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Research from NASA's ABoVE campaign provides a record of riverbank erosion and vegetation colonization along major Alaskan rivers from 1984 to 2017.

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.