Data Information

Title:: NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), AVH15C1

Institutions:: Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), NASA, USA; University of Maryland (UMD), USA; Climate Data Record (CDR), NOAA, USA; National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Source:: This daily gridded Leaf Area Index (LAI) derived from the NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Surface Reflectance.

History:: 2019-08-23: downloaded source from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C01559/html; 2019-09-12: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-lai-avh15c1.py

References:: Vermote, Eric (2019), NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) Version 5, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, , , doi:10.7289/V5TT4P69; Claverie, M., Matthews, J., Vermote, E., and Justice, C. (2016), A 30+ Year AVHRR LAI and FAPAR Climate Data Record: Algorithm Description and Validation, Remote Sensing, 8, 263, doi:10.3390/rs8030263

Comments:: time_period: 1981-01 through 2019-12; original_temporal_resolution: daily; original_spatial_resolution: 0.05 degree; original_units: 1; final_temporal_resolution: monthly; final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree; final_units: 1

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