HR: 1340h
AN: SF23A-0037    [Abstracts]
TI: The ISLSCP Initiative II Data Collection
AU: * Hall, F G
EM: fghall@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 923, Greenbelt, Md 21043
AB: The International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) sponsored the production of the first, co-registered, peer-reviewed, documented interdisciplinary data collection that included global, monthly surface meteorology, vegetation, soils, surface routing and runoff, atmospheric radiation data and clouds for 1987 and 1988 at a 1-degree spatial resolution. The ISLSCP Initiative II collection is greatly expanded in both time and spatial resolution. Initiative II is a 10-year core global data collection spanning the years 1987 to 1995 with improved spatial and temporal resolution (one-quarter to 1 degree) using improved data generation algorithms. In addition, Initiative II includes some data sets spanning the 18-year period, 1982-1999. The data collection includes additional carbon and socioeconomic data sets uniquely designed to support global carbon cycling studies. Initiative II provides a comprehensive collection of high priority global data sets in a consistent data format and Earth projection. The full Initiative II collection consists of some 47 different data types with 230 different parameters shown below (number of parameters in parentheses).  Radiation and Clouds (45)  Hydrology, Topography and Soils (39)  Near-Surface Meteorology (95)  Vegetation (29)  Fixed (11)  Carbon (15)  Monthly (12)  Snow and Sea Ice (4)  Monthly 3-hourly (44)  Oceans (1)  3-hourly (28)  Socioeconomic (2) Each of the 47 data sets and accompanying documents have undergone two peer reviews, one by reviewers familiar with the data set (but not the producer of it) and a second reviewer, a potential user who has no previous experience with it. The data set draft is complete and is to be followed by an evaluation of the entire collection prior to final publication by the Initiative II staff and external users. This collection-overview evaluation will include an assessment of the individual data series against each other and independent data sources and an evaluation of the value of the ISLSCP II collection as a whole.The Initiative II collection is available at http://islscp2.sesda.com/.
UR: http://islscp2.sesda.com/
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE (New category)
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting