Trees-High. Global map of forest height produced from NASA's ICESAT/GLAS, MODIS and TRMM sensors. The map will advance our understanding of Earth's forest habitats and their role in Earth's carbon cycle. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Full image and caption February 17, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. - A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights influence wildlife habitats within them, while also helping them quantify the carbon stored in Earth's vegetation.
Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; the University of Maryland, College Park; and Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Mass., created the map using 2.5 million carefully screened, globally distributed laser pulse measurements from space. The map, available at depicts the highest points in the forest canopy. Daylight Hours Explorer. Shows the hours of daylight received during the year for an observer at a given latitude. This is an important factor contributing to the seasons. Running this animation on your computer... right-click to download daylighthoursexplorer.swf and daylighthoursexplorer.html to the same directory open the html file in a browser to run the animation Linking to this animation... copy and paste the code below into your webpage or blog: Putting this animation on your website... upload daylighthoursexplorer.swf to the same directory as your webpage copy and paste the following code into your webpage:
Globsnow. The GlobSnow project aims at creating temporally and spatially extensive snow products with well known accuracy characteristics. The snow products will be based on current state of the art algorithms that can be employed for global scale snow monitoring. Two snow parameters: snow extent (SE) and snow water equivalent (SWE) are produced within GlobSnow. The snow products will be validated using an extensive ground truth database gathered from Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and the Alps. The consistency of the historical data sets will be investigated and characterized for different geographical regions. The snow products will be archived and distributed through ESA network and the data will be available for the User community free of charge. The currently released prototype data sets have been made publicly accessible through a FMI hosted FTP-server; access information to the server can be acquired through Dr.
Global areal snow extent -product (SE) Snow water equivalent -product (SWE) SeaSTA for NASA World Wind. For World Wind is a comprehensive collection of high resolution maps of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) from 1982 to the latest available data. Data categories include monthly SST, SST Anomaly (SSTA) and worldwide tropical storms, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. also includes climatologies, an assortment of SST properties, sea ice, surface currents and winds, as well as shaded relief maps and vector outlines.
This World Wind add-on contains over 800 maps covering numerous aspects of global SST. It also includes tracks and properties of over 2800 tropical storms. The highest resolution publicly available data is compiled from the leading, most up to date sources to provide presentation quality analyses of these important phenomena. allows you to readily visualize the complex thermal processes that underlie the behavior of Earth's largest climatic and biological engine. Contains high resolution (~4 km) monthly maps of SST from 1982 to the present.
GES DISC Earth Sciences, Data & Information Services Center. WorldClim - Global Climate Data | Free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS. Download.