ISLSCP II Total Plant-Available Soil Water Storage Capacity of the Rooting Zone

Description

This data set provides two estimates of the geographic distribution of the total plant-available soil water storage capacity of the rooting zone ("rooting zone water storage size") on a 1.0 degree global grid. Two inverse modeling methods were used. The first modeling approach (optimization) was based on the assumption that vegetation has adapted to the environment such that it makes optimum use of water (Kleidon and Heimann 1998). The second method (assimilation) was based on the assumption that green vegetation indicates sufficient available water for transpiration (Knorr 1997). The data set was developed to provide alternative means to describe rooting characteristics of the global vegetation cover for land surface and climate models in support of the ISLSCP Initiative II data collection. There are three files in this data set.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/islscp_ii/hydrology_soils/root_water_storage_1deg/
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1006
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/hydrology_soils/root_water_storage_1deg/comp/1_root_water_storage_doc.pdf
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/hydrology_soils/root_water_storage_1deg/comp/root_water_storage_1deg.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1006_1_fit.png
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1006
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ISLSCP_II/guides/root_water_storage_1deg.html
21 The THREDDS location for this Collection. https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalog/ornldaac/1006/catalog.html
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=1006
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/hydrology_soils/root_water_storage_1deg/comp/0_root_water_storage_readme.txt

Tags

  • atmospheric-radiation
  • ecosystems
  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • atmosphere
  • vegetation
  • ecological-dynamics
  • erosion-sedimentation
  • earth-science

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