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    • Forest Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Sequestration Potential, Northeastern USA

    Metadata Updated: March 11, 2025

    This dataset provides 90 m estimates of forest aboveground biomass (Mg/ha) for nominal 2011 and projections of carbon sequestration potential for 11 states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) domain. The RGGI is a cooperative, market-based effort among States in the eastern United States. Estimated biomass and sequestration potential were computed using the Ecosystem Demography (ED) model. The ED Model integrates several key data including climate variables from Daymet and MERRA2 products; physical soil and hydraulic properties from Probabilistic Remapping of SSURGO (POLARIS) and CONUS-SOIL; land cover characteristics from airborne lidar, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and the National Land Cover Database (NLCD); and vegetation parameters from the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program.

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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 March 11, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Spatial patterns of forest carbon stores and carbon sequestration potential for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative domain. Maps show aboveground biomass initialized from Ecosystem Demography model (ABG, top left), carbon sequestration potential (CSP, top right), carbon sequestration potential difference (CSP, bottom left), and carbon sequestration potential time gap (time to reach CSP from initialized AGB, bottom right). Source: Ma et al. (2021)

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2025
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2345798940-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2022-03-21
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-07
    Category CMS, 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 Ma, L., G.C. Hurtt, H. Tang, R. Lamb, E. Campbell, R.O. Dubayah, M. Guy, W. Huang, J. Lu, A. Rudee, Q. Shen, C.E. Silva, and A.J. Lister. 2022. Forest Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Sequestration Potential, Northeastern USA. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1922
    Graphic Preview Description Spatial patterns of forest carbon stores and carbon sequestration potential for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative domain. Maps show aboveground biomass initialized from Ecosystem Demography model (ABG, top left), carbon sequestration potential (CSP, top right), carbon sequestration potential difference (CSP, bottom left), and carbon sequestration potential time gap (time to reach CSP from initialized AGB, bottom right). Source: Ma et al. (2021)
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/CMS/guides/AGB_Carbon_Sequestration_RGGI_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id a12ec455-e91d-4b36-a52d-0e61871c3d97
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1922
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -81.23 36.8 -66.06 49.02
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8c186baab7d447f778856bc5ca48af73b9b1cf186a7d321b5c11a8cbf5a47f67
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z/2011-12-31T23:59:59Z

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