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    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation, Geobotanical, Physiographic Maps, 1982-2003

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    This data set provides the spatial distributions of vegetation types, geobotanical characteristics, and physiographic features for the circumpolar Arctic tundra biome for the period 1982-2003. Specific attributes include dominant vegetation, bioclimate subzones, floristic subprovinces, landscape types, lake coverage, Arctic treeline, elevation, and substrate chemistry data. Vegetation indices, trends, and biomass estimate products for the circumpolar Arctic through 2010 are also provided.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2170968604-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2018-12-31
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-12
    Category ABoVE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Walker, D.A., and M.K. Raynolds. 2018. Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation, Geobotanical, Physiographic Maps, 1982-2003. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1323
    Graphic Preview Description Browse Image
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/Arctic_Vegetation_Maps_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id 4be07fd9-9af2-46bf-bc49-4e7b0e65d255
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1323
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 55.8 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4b86cd930dd93b08a1931e648c9b91fbd82f7ca97578c1324470a3507f008872
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1982-06-01T00:00:00Z/2010-09-30T23:59:59Z

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