Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-21T09:12:17Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 55 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]UH_SOEST_METO 20.0,-50.0,120.0,10.0 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The University of Hawaii School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology Department of Meteorology (UH/SOEST/METO) The UH/SOEST/METO Server provides weather data and forecasts, satellite imagery, and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP2_AVHRR_ALBEDO -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1995-02-01T00:00:00Z 1995-07-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

This Albedo and BRDF (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function) data set contains three files containing BRDF parameters, white- sky albedo and black-sky albedo at solar noon for three bands ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_C4_1DEG -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

The photosynthetic composition (C3 or C4) of vegetation on the land surface is essential for accurate simulations of biosphere-atmosphere exchanges of carbon, water, and energy. C3 and C4 plants have ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP2_CONTVEG -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1992-04-01T00:00:00Z 1993-05-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

The objective of this study was to derive continuous fields of vegetation cover from multi-temporal Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data using all available bands and derived Normalized ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP2_IDSLC -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

This data set describes the geographic distributions of 17 classes of land cover based on the International Geosphere-Biosphere DISCover land cover legend (Loveland and Belward 1997) and the 15 classes ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Pre-LBA_ISLSCP-I -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

This data set contains hydrology, soils, radiation, cloud, and vegetation data from the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Initiative I. The ISLSCP data sets should ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_EROOT -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1995-02-01T00:00:00Z 1995-07-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-10T04:00:00Z

The goal of this study was to predict the global distribution of plant rooting depths based on data about global aboveground vegetation structure and climate. Vertical root distributions influence ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0501 73.17,-78.47,73.17,-78.47 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set provides a modeled radar attenuation rate profile, showing the predicted contributions from pure ice and impurities to radar attenuation at the Vostok 5G ice core site in Antarctica, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]FLUXNET_POINT -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-09-30T04:00:00Z

Carbon dioxide flux and meteorological data for the Harvard Forest, MA (1992-95) and BOREAS Northern Study Area, Old Black Spruce (Alberta, Canada; 1994-95) FLUXNET sites are provided as examples ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]RIVER_CARBON_FLUX -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-09-30T04:00:00Z

The River Carbon Flux data set represents estimates for the riverine export of carbon and of sediments. This data set includes the amounts of carbon and of sediments that are discharged to the oceans ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GPPDI_NPP_POINT 156.7,45.7,176.6,75.55 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-09-30T04:00:00Z

The Global Primary Production Data Initiative (GPPDI) was set up as a Focus 1 activity of the IGBP Data and Information System, a coordinated international program to improve worldwide estimates of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_MODEL_NPP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1931-01-01T00:00:00Z 1987-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-09-30T04:00:00Z

This data set contains modeled annual net primary production (NPP) for the land biosphere from seventeen different global models. Annual NPP is defined as the net difference of annual carbon uptake ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]reusch_1066348 2011-09-30T04:00:00Z

This award supports a three-year effort to use nonlinear techniques to improve understanding of Antarctic climate through studies of observational and forecast model data sets; improve and extend ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_ATMOS_CO2_EROSION -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-08-09T04:00:00Z

The Continental Atmospheric CO2 Consumption data set represents gridded estimates for the riverine export of carbon and of sediments based on empirical models. All data exist for the overall continental ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_CO2_EMISSIONS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-08-09T04:00:00Z

This data set contains decadal (1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 1995) estimates of gridded fossil-fuel emissions, expressed in 1,000 metric tons C per year per one degree latitude by one degree longitude. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_EDGAR_ATMOS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-08-09T04:00:00Z

The EDGAR (Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research) database project is a comprehensive task carried out jointly by the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) and the Netherlands Organization ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_GPPDI_NPP_GRDDED -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-08-09T04:00:00Z

Net Primary Production (NPP) is an important component of the carbon cycle and, among the pools and fluxes that make up the cycle, it is one of the steps that are most accessible to field measurement. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_SOILS_1DEG -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

This data set provides gridded data for selected soil parameters derived from data and methods developed by the Global Soil Data Task, an international collaborative project with the objective of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCPII_GPCC_PRECIP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), which is operated by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (National Meteorological Service of Germany), is a component of the Global Precipitation Climatology ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_PRECIP_PENTAD -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) pentad version 1 precipitation data set includes global precipitation rates for 5-day, or pentad, periods. The data sets are derived from measured ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_GPCP_PRECIP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Version 2 data set includes global, monthly precipitation rates and associated random errors (RMSE), and a monthly precipitation climatology derived ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_GTS_PRECIP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

The objective of this work was to construct a long-term data set of daily precipitation on half degree and one degree latitude/longitude grids over the global land areas. The analyses are defined ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_HYDRO1K -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

This data set contains coarse scale elevation and elevation-based parameters at 1.0 and 0.5-degree spatial resolutions that were developed to support a wide variety of global modeling activities through ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP2_ROOT_STORAGE_CAPACITY -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

This data set provides two estimates of the geographic distribution of the total plant-available soil water storage capacity of the rooting zone ("rooting zone water storage size") on a 1.0 degree ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCPII_COMP_RUNOFF -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T04:00:00Z

The University of New Hampshire (UNH)/Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) composite runoff data combines simulated water balance model runoff estimates derived from climate forcing with monitored river ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_FASIR_BIOPHYS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Fourier-Adjusted, Sensor and Solar zenith angle corrected, Interpolated, Reconstructed (FASIR) adjusted Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data set and derived biophysical parameter ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_FASIR_NDVI -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Fourier-Adjusted, Sensor and Solar zenith angle corrected, Interpolated, Reconstructed (FASIR) adjusted Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data sets were generated to provide a 17-year, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_GIMMS_NDVI -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1981-07-01T00:00:00Z 2002-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Global Inventory Modelling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data sets were generated to provide a 22-year satellite record of monthly changes in terrestrial ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_GPOP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

Global Population of the World (GPW) translates census population data to a latitude-longitude grid so that population data may be used in cross-disciplinary studies. There are three data files with ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_SEA_ICE_EXTENT -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

This International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Initiative II data set is based on the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_HCROPLAND -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z 1992-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Historical Croplands Cover data set was developed to understand the consequences of historical changes in land use and land cover for ecosystem goods and services. In particular, this data set ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_HLANDCOVER -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Historical Land Cover and Land Use data set was developed to provide the global change community with historical land use estimates. The data set describes historical land use changes over a 300-year ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_ORNL_LAI -156.67,-54.5,172.75,71.3 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

Leaf Area Index (LAI) data from the scientific literature, covering the period from 1932-2000, have been compiled at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_MODISLC -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2000-10-01T00:00:00Z 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

The objective of the MODIS Land Cover Product is to provide a suite of land cover types useful to global system science modelers by exploiting the information content of MODIS data in the spectral, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCPII_SNOWFREE_ALBEDO -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

This data set contains monthly average snow-free surface shortwave albedo calculated for the period 1982-1998 and estimates of background soil/litter reflectances in the visible (0.4-0.7 ??m) and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_SNOW_COVER_XDEG -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

This ISLSCP data set is derived from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent product which combines snow cover and sea ice ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_POT_VEG -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1992-04-01T00:00:00Z 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

This data set was developed to describe the state of the global land cover in terms of 15 major vegetation types, plus water, before alteration by humans. It forms a complement to the historical croplands ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_SEA_SURFACE_TEMP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

Sea surface temperature (SST) is an important indicator of the state of the earth climate system as well as a key variable in the coupling between the atmosphere and the ocean. Accurate knowledge ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_UMD_LC -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1992-04-01T00:00:00Z 1993-03-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-18T05:00:00Z

The objective of this study was to create a land cover map derived from 1 kilometer AVHRR data using all available bands and derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and a full year of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_MODIS_ALBEDO_2002 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-17T05:00:00Z

The MODIS BRDF/Albedo Product (MOD43B) provides measures of clear sky surface albedo every 16 days. Both white-sky albedo (bihemispherical reflectance) and black-sky albedo (directional hemispherical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_NOAA_ALBEDO_5yr -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1985-04-01T00:00:00Z 1991-03-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-17T05:00:00Z

The objective of this work was to produce a monthly climatology of broadband surface albedos for use in global numerical weather prediction models at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISCLSCP_II_ERBE_ALBEDO -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-02-01T00:00:00Z 2011-02-15T05:00:00Z

The goals of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) are (1) to understand the radiation balance between the Sun, Earth, atmosphere, and space and (2) to establish an accurate, long-term baseline ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_snofree_16day_albedo -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-02-14T05:00:00Z

This data set contains 9 files for snow-free, spatially complete 16-day global black-sky albedos at local solar noon, white-sky albedos and quality information based on MODerate Resolution Imaging ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ISLSCP_II_GDP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-08-03T04:00:00Z

The data sets in this directory were provided by Mr. Gregory Yetman and Drs. Stuart Gaffin and Deborah Balk from the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LSC_LYNDONSTATECOLLEGE -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2010-07-02T04:00:00Z

The Lyndon State College (LSC) Department of Meteorology server address on the WWW is 'http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/'. The LSC server features Weather Maps and Information ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_UARZCUKM_V001 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1991-10-17T00:00:00Z 2001-09-30T00:00:00Z 2009-09-14T04:00:00Z

Correlative assimilation data from the U.K. Meteorological Office (UKMO) are included as supplementary data products to the UARS Project. The main use of the correlative assimilation data is to provide ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GSFC_DAAC_DAO_4D_TIMESERIES -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1985-03-01T00:00:00Z 1990-02-28T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Data Assimilation Office (DAO) at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center produced a multi-year gridded global atmospheric data set for use in climate research, including tropospheric ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CEOP_MODEL_GATEWAY -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

These data consist of model output data to support the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP). The data consists of Model Output Location Time Series (MOLTS) from NOAA/NCEP Global ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCDC_GFDL_100_1000 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Global Climate Model (GCM) 100 year run can be found here: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/online/gcm.html . The Geophysical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LDEO_GISS_MODELS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2006-06-30T04:00:00Z

Model output consists of surface diagnostics from an atmospheric model simulation that used Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) boundary conditions. See http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/projects/amip/index.php ...