VEMAP - Phase I Database: An Integrated INPUT Dataset for ECOSYSTEM and Vegetation Modeling for the Conterminous United States

Dataset · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15485/1464222· OSTI ID:1464222

Kittel, T. G. F. ^[1]; Rosenbloom, N. A. ^[2]; Painter, T. H. ^[2]; Schimel, D. S. ^[2]; Fisher, H. H. ^[2]; Grimsdell, A. ^[2]; Daly, C. ^[3]

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1. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division; ESS-DIVE
2. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division
3. Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology

The Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP) is an ongoing multi-institutional, international effort addressing the response of biogeography and biogeochemistry models to environmental variability in climate and other drivers in both space and time domains. The VEMAP input database for the Phase I model intercomparison includes compiled and model-generated datasets of long-term mean climate, soils, vegetation, and climate change scenarios for the conterminous United States. The data are on a 0.5 degree latitude/longitude grid. The data files include a VEMAP User's Guide, selected data and model output images, and README files under each data subdirectory to explain individual files. Updates and additional information on VEMAP can be found at http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/vemap. Development of the VEMAP database was supported by NASA, Electronic Power Research Institute (EPRI), USDA Forest Service, and NSF through the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's Climate System Modeling Program.

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
• OSTI ID: 1464222
• Report Number(s): cdiac:VEMAP
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Area (km**2)
Bulk Density (g/cm**3)
Clay (% by weight)
Conterminous United States
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Depth (cm)
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Latitude
Longitude
Maximum temperature (C)
Mean Temperature
Mean relative humidity (%)
Minimum temperature (C)
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Rock Fragments (% by volume)
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Soil organic Carbon (0-20 cm) (Mega-grams of Carbon/hectare)
Solar Radiation
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Surface Air Temperature (C)
Surface Wind Speed (m/s)
Temperature
Total incident Solar Radiation (kJ/m2)
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Vegetation Code
Vegetation Ecosystem Modeling
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fraction of potential total incident solar radiation at surface (0-1)
fraction of potential total solar radiation at top of atmosphere (0-1)
mean irradiance (W/m2)
potential total solar radiation at surface (kJ/m2)