Description
This dataset provides 90 m estimates of forest aboveground biomass (Mg/ha) for nominal 2011 and projections of carbon sequestration potential for 11 states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) domain. The RGGI is a cooperative, market-based effort among States in the eastern United States. Estimated biomass and sequestration potential were computed using the Ecosystem Demography (ED) model. The ED Model integrates several key data including climate variables from Daymet and MERRA2 products; physical soil and hydraulic properties from Probabilistic Remapping of SSURGO (POLARIS) and CONUS-SOIL; land cover characteristics from airborne lidar, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and the National Land Cover Database (NLCD); and vegetation parameters from the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | Spatial patterns of forest carbon stores and carbon sequestration potential for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative domain. Maps show aboveground biomass initialized from Ecosystem Demography model (ABG, top left), carbon sequestration potential (CSP, top right), carbon sequestration potential difference (CSP, bottom left), and carbon sequestration potential time gap (time to reach CSP from initialized AGB, bottom right). Source: Ma et al. (2021) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | Forest Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Sequestration Potential, Northeastern USA: AGB_Carbon_Sequestration_RGGI.pdf | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |