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    • ISLSCP II Total Plant-Available Soil Water Storage Capacity of the Rooting Zone

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This data set provides two estimates of the geographic distribution of the total plant-available soil water storage capacity of the rooting zone ("rooting zone water storage size") on a 1.0 degree global grid. Two inverse modeling methods were used. The first modeling approach (optimization) was based on the assumption that vegetation has adapted to the environment such that it makes optimum use of water (Kleidon and Heimann 1998). The second method (assimilation) was based on the assumption that green vegetation indicates sufficient available water for transpiration (Knorr 1997). The data set was developed to provide alternative means to describe rooting characteristics of the global vegetation cover for land surface and climate models in support of the ISLSCP Initiative II data collection. There are three files in this data set.

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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 October 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date October 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2785281172-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-10-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-10-18
    Category ISLSCP II, 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 Kleidon, A., F.G. Hall, G.J. Collatz, B.W. Meeson, S.O. Los, E.Brown De Colstoun, and D.R. Landis. 2011. ISLSCP II Total Plant-Available Soil Water Storage Capacity of the Rooting Zone. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1006
    Graphic Preview Description Browse Image
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1006_1_fit.png
    Harvest Object Id 65012bc6-ba0d-45a8-90d3-73704329bdf9
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1006
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 657c6085227718d5f1de3fef0921ceab7b205d703f653c6f8bc1783acf9656f5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z/1988-12-31T23:59:59Z

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