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  Title:
Global forest live biomass carbon version 5.1

  Version:
5.1

  Institutions:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

  Source:
A combination of data in situ inventory plots and satellite light detection and ranging (Lidar) samples

  History:
2017-10-31: downloaded source from https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Saatchi
2019-03-14: convert original tif files to netcdf data using gdal_translate
2019-11-06: converted to ILAMB required netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-biomass-GlobalCarbon.py

  References:
Saatchi, S.S., N.L. Harris, S. Brown, M. Lefsky, E.T. Mitchard, W. Salas, B.R. Zutta, W. Buermann, S.L. Lewis, S. Hagen, S. Petrova, L. White, M. Silman, and A. Morel (2011), Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(24), 9899-9904, doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108

  Comments:
time_period: climatology
original_temporal_resolution: climatology
original_spatial_resolution: 0.25 degree
original_units: kg/m2 biomass
final_temporal_resolution: climatology
final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree
final_units: kg/m2 carbon

  Convention:
CF-1.7