Abstract:
The BOREAS TE-02 team collected several data sets in support of its efforts to characterize and interpret information on the respiration of the foliage, roots, and wood of boreal vegetation. This data set contains measurements of foliar respiration conducted in the NSA during the growing season of 1994.
Quality
NSIDC staff visually checks the entire set of data files and selected graphics files. This includes checks for proper file structure, comparisons to existing SMMR-, SSM/I-, and SSMIS-derived sea ice concentration grids, masks, and information files, and examination of data quality. Some weather-related effects and land contamination are still present. The amount and spatial distribution of those ... remaining weather effects varies with season. Also, occasional bad scan lines still appear in the data. Based on NSIDC analyses (see NSIDC Special Report 5: An Intercomparison of DMSP F11- and F13-derived Sea Ice Products for summaries of differences among the SSM/I sensors), some sensor-to-sensor differences are likely to remain in these data, particularly for marginal ice zones. During May 1986, residual weather effects and processing errors result in large bands of very low ice concentrations over the open ocean in the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and Amundsen seas in the Southern Hemisphere. Although the magnitude of these
