Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-23T06:43:09Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 24 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NA_TREEAGE 179.251,7.7126,-39.866,67.008 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-12T04:00:00Z

This data set provides forest age map products at 1-km resolution for Canada and the United States (U.S.A.). These continental forest age maps were compiled from forest inventory data, historical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_biofuel_emiss 24.82,-14.86,24.82,-14.86 2000-09-10T00:00:00Z 2000-09-16T00:00:00Z 2012-10-23T04:00:00Z

Domestic biomass fuels (biofuels) are estimated to be the second largest source of carbon emissions from global biomass burning. Wood and charcoal provide approximately 90% and 10% of domestic energy ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PRE_LBA_SCAR-B -100.0,-60.0,-10.0,15.0 1995-08-15T00:00:00Z 1995-09-22T00:00:00Z 2012-08-10T04:00:00Z

This data set contains meteorological data, reanalysis data, remote sensing images, and data on atmospheric composition collected during the Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation - Brazil (SCAR-B) experiment. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gv_aws -15.8392,-27.75,37.2375,16.761 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-07-25T04:00:00Z

This data set includes the soil and vegetation characteristics, herbivore estimates, and precipitation measurement data for the 854 sites described and analyzed in Sankaran et al., 2005. Savannas ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]vg_gfe21 -179.5,-89.5,179.5,89.5 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-07-25T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of 1 degree x 1 degree gridded monthly burned area, fuel loads, combustion completeness, and fire emissions of carbon (C), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBA-ECO_LC23_AMFD -68.0,-11.0,-54.0,5.0 2003-01-19T00:00:00Z 2004-02-07T00:00:00Z 2012-07-19T04:00:00Z

This data set contains data associated with MODIS fire maps generated using two different algorithms and compared against fire maps produced by ASTER. These data relate to a paper (Morisette et al., ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]S2K_RS_AVHRR_IMAGERY 8.733,-35.2617,43.1995,-7.4861 1998-07-01T00:00:00Z 2000-10-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-23T04:00:00Z

The Global Inventory Mapping and Modeling (GIMMS) group at NASA/GSFC provided SAFARI 2000 with remotely sensed satellite data products at the site and regional level. These AVHRR data contain two ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_spot_veg_burn -18.0,-35.0,55.0,18.0 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-17T04:00:00Z

The Global Burned Area 2000 initiative (GBA2000) was launched by the Global Vegetation Mapping Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, in partnership with several other institutions, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_modis_burned 5.0,-37.225,56.7519,0.0 2000-06-27T00:00:00Z 2000-10-04T00:00:00Z 2012-05-17T04:00:00Z

The SAFARI 2000 project was selected as the first regional test for a prototype regional 500 m MODIS burned area product. The MODIS burned area product maps the 500 m location and approximate day ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NAFD_DISTURBANCE -126.458,26.5202,-67.9596,49.7924 1984-06-04T00:00:00Z 2009-09-16T00:00:00Z 2012-04-20T04:00:00Z

This data set provides the results of time-series analyses of Landsat imagery for 55 selected forested sites across the conterminous U.S.A. The output is a pair of disturbance data products for each ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_one_deg_biomass -18.0,-36.0,56.0,0.0 2000-08-01T00:00:00Z 2000-09-30T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

A new method is used to generate spatial estimates of monthly averaged biomass burned area and spatial and temporal estimates of trace gas and aerosol emissions from open fires in southern Africa.Global ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_aster_modis 16.31,-26.83,44.26,-11.29 2001-08-05T00:00:00Z 2001-10-05T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

These data relate to a paper (Morisette et al., 2005) that describes the use of high spatial resolution ASTER data to determine the accuracy of the moderate resolution MODIS active fire product. Our ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_burn_emissions 10.0,-35.0,50.0,0.0 2000-11-24T00:00:00Z 2001-01-16T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

Biomass burning is a major source for gaseous and particulate atmospheric pollution over southern Africa and globally. The purpose of this study was to quantify biomass burning emissions in an attempt ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_fire_emissions 12.0,-27.0,36.0,-14.0 2000-08-14T00:00:00Z 2000-09-14T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

As part of the Southern Africa Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000), the University of Montana participated in both ground-based and airborne campaigns during the southern African dry season ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_knp_fire_map 30.888,-25.529,32.034,-22.327 1992-05-11T00:00:00Z 2001-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

Kruger National Park (KNP) was established in 1898 to protect wildlife on nearly 2 million hectares of the South African Lowveld. The climate in this region of South Africa is subtropical, with hot ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_fuel_load 5.0,-34.9916,42.4915,10.0 1999-09-01T00:00:00Z 2000-08-31T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

This data set contains global, spatially explicit (1 km2 grid cells) and temporally explicit (semi-monthly) modeled output of fuel loads over southern Africa. The fuel types considered in the data ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_pre_post_fire 24.8,-14.79,24.8,-14.79 2000-08-24T00:00:00Z 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

The main goal of this study was to analyze the possibility of estimating combustion completeness based on fire-induced spectral reflectance changes of surface features by the development of relationships ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_fire_residue 21.83,-25.75,22.3294,-24.16 2000-08-14T00:00:00Z 2000-08-14T00:00:00Z 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z

The goal of this study was to understand the change in reflectance caused by the action of fire and the heterogeneity of fire effects (i.e., the fraction of the observation that burned and the combustion ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]dsp09_sask_raster -111.0,48.0,-90.0,60.0 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 2012-02-01T05:00:00Z

This data set contains a pair of raster images and a spreadsheet chronicling the most recent fire history of Saskatchewan from 1945 to 1996. This data set was developed from a series of ARC/INFO export ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBA_ND07_PLFA_SOILS -47.8506,-15.9328,-47.7,-15.5833 2000-06-01T00:00:00Z 2001-06-01T00:00:00Z 2011-10-12T04:00:00Z

This data set reports the microbial biomass in soil samples collected from the Cerrado, a woodlands-savannah area, in Brasilia, Brazil. Microbial biomass was determined as the total concentration ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBA_ND07_TRACE_GAS_LAND_USE -47.8506,-16.3,-47.2506,-15.2333 1999-09-09T00:00:00Z 2005-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-10-12T04:00:00Z

This data set reports on soil-atmosphere fluxes of trace carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and nitric oxide (CO2, CO, N2O, NO) under various natural and manipulated land use conditions. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_SASKFIRE -110.0,49.0,-101.6,60.0 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-08-17T04:00:00Z

This data set is a series of ARC/INFO export files of the fire history of Saskatchewan by year from 1945 to 1996, with a few missing years. The data set was compiled and provided by the Saskatchewan ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]s2k_modis_emissions 9.6738,-34.1425,46.6473,0.3389 2000-08-31T00:00:00Z 2000-09-30T00:00:00Z 2009-02-10T05:00:00Z

The recently generated MODIS burned area product over southern Africa for the month of September 2000 was used to calculate regional biomass burning emissions from grassland and woodland fires for ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_MOD14CM1_V005 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2008-09-17T04:00:00Z

The gridded MODIS active fire products present gridded statistical summaries of fire pixel information (Giglio et al., 2003). These products are intended for use in Giovanni system focused ...