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    • ABoVE: Fractional Open Water Cover for Pan-Arctic and ABoVE-Domain Regions, 2002-2015

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    This data set provides land surface fractional open water cover maps for two overlapping regions: the entire pan-Arctic region (latitude > 45 degrees) and the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) domain across Alaska and Canada. The data are a 10-day averaged time step at 5-km spatial resolution for the period 2002-2015. Data represent the aerial portion of a grid cell covered by open water. The data were produced using high frequency (89 GHz) brightness temperatures from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), with other ancillary inputs from AMSR-E/AMSR2 25-km products and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The resulting data record for fractional water is suitable for documenting open water patterns and inundation dynamics in boreal-Arctic ecosystems experiencing rapid climate change.

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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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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2111722183-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2016-12-07
    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 Du, J., J.S. Kimball, and J.D. Watts. 2016. ABoVE: Fractional Open Water Cover for Pan-Arctic and ABoVE-Domain Regions, 2002-2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1362
    Graphic Preview Description Browse Image
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water_Fig1.JPG
    Harvest Object Id 6e1f1bb6-8e98-4297-a958-12ca1f929f95
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1362
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 39.38 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1ae8721ad9e9d48d9f155a5d5e1fb16a41c35af5d32d2c0ec2f7bdf5eda66cf4
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2002-06-20T00:00:00Z/2015-12-31T23:59:59Z

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