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Assessing historical and projected carbon balance of Alaska: A synthesis of results and policy/management implications Assessing historical and projected carbon balance of Alaska: A synthesis of results and policy/management implications
We summarize the results of a recent interagency assessment of land carbon dynamics in Alaska, in which carbon dynamics were estimated for all major terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems for the historical period (1950–2009) and a projection period (2010–2099). Between 1950 and 2009, upland and wetland (i.e., terrestrial) ecosystems of the state gained 0.4 Tg C/yr (0.1% of net primary...
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A. David McGuire, Hélène Genet, Zhou Lyu, Neal J. Pastick, Sarah M. Stackpoole, Richard Birdsey, David D'Amore, Yujie He, T. Scott Rupp, Robert G. Striegl, Bruce K. Wylie, Xiaoping Zhou, Qianlai Zhuang, Zhiliang Zhu
An overview of USGS-NASA Landsat Science activities during 2018 An overview of USGS-NASA Landsat Science activities during 2018
Two meetings of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-NASA Landsat Science Team (LST) took place in 2018. The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center hosted the winter meeting, which took place February 21-22 in Sioux Falls, SD. The University of Colorado-Boulder hosted the summer meeting, which was held August 8-10 in Boulder, CO.
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Christopher J. Crawford, Thomas R. Loveland, Jeffery G. Masek, Michael A. Wulder
Priority questions in multidisciplinary drought research Priority questions in multidisciplinary drought research
Addressing timely and relevant questions across a multitude of spatio-temporal scales, state-of-the-art interdisciplinary drought research will likely increase in importance under projected climate change. Given the complexity of the various direct and indirect causes and consequences of a drier world, scientific tasks need to be coordinated efficiently. Drought-related research...
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Miroslav Trnka, Michael Hayes, Frantisek Jurecka, Lenka Bartosova, Martha Anderson, Rudolf Brazdil, Jesslyn F. Brown, Jesus J. Camarero, Pavel Cudlin, Petr Dobrovolny, Josef Eitzinger, Song Feng, Taryn Finnessey, Gregor Gregoric, Petr Havlik, Christopher Hain, Ian Holman, David Johnson, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Jurg Luterbacher, Fabio Micale, Claudia Hartl-Meier, Martin Mozny, Pavol Nejedlik, Jorgen Eivind Olesen, Margarita Ruiz-Ramos, Reimund P. Rotter, Gabriel Senay, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Mark Svoboda, Andreja Susnik, Tsegaye Tadesse, Adam Vizina, Brian D. Wardlow, Zdenek Zalud, Ulf Buntgen
Sentinel-2A MSI and Landsat-8 OLI radiometric cross comparison over desert sites Sentinel-2A MSI and Landsat-8 OLI radiometric cross comparison over desert sites
The Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 satellites carry on-board moderate resolution multispectral imagers for the purpose of documenting the Earth’s changing surface. Though they are independently built and managed, users will certainly take advantage of the opportunity to have higher temporal coverage by combining the datasets. Thus it is important for the radiometric and geometric calibration...
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Julia Barsi, Bahjat Alhammoud, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, Ferran Gascon, Obaidul Haque, Morakot Kaewmanee, Larry Leigh, Brian Markham
Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2011 impervious cover data for the Chesapeake Bay region, USA Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2011 impervious cover data for the Chesapeake Bay region, USA
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) contains three eras (2001, 2006, 2011) of percentage urban impervious cover (%IC) at the native pixel size (30 m-x-30 m) of the Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite. These data are potentially valuable to environmental managers and stakeholders because of the utility of %IC as an indicator of watershed and aquatic condition, but lack an accuracy...
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James Wickham, Nate Herold, Stephen V. Stehman, Collin Homer, George Z. Xian, Peter Claggett
Landsat Collections Landsat Collections
In 2016, the U.S. Geological Survey reorganized the Landsat archive into a tiered collection structure, which ensures that Landsat Level-1 products provide a consistent archive of known data quality to support time-series analyses and data “stacking” while controlling continuous improvement of the archive and access to all data as they are acquired. Landsat Collection 1 required the...
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Assessing recovery and change in West Africa's rainfall regime from a 161-year record Assessing recovery and change in West Africa's rainfall regime from a 161-year record
The Sahel region is known for the multi-decadal occurrence of severe drought that commenced in the late 1960s. A still open question is whether or not the region's rainfall has returned to “normal.” This paper provides a compelling answer to that question by examining the longest and most comprehensive gauge series for the region ever published. It extends from 1854 to 2014 and is based...
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Sharon E. Nicholson, Andreas H. Fink, Chris Funk
Farmer-managed restoration of agroforestry parklands in Niger Farmer-managed restoration of agroforestry parklands in Niger
Land rehabilitation enables sustainable intensification of agriculture and more resilient food production systems. Despite severe development challenges, Niger is the site of successful, farmer-managed efforts to counteract the global trend in land degradation that was supported by policy change. The vast majority of Niger’s land is located in the Sahara. Following a series of severe...
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Melinda Smale, G. Gray Tappan, Chris Reij
Past role and future outlook of the Conservation Reserve Program for supporting honey bees in the Great Plains Past role and future outlook of the Conservation Reserve Program for supporting honey bees in the Great Plains
Human dependence on insect pollinators continues to grow even as pollinators face global declines. The Northern Great Plains (NGP), a region often referred to as America’s last honey bee (Apis mellifera) refuge, has undergone rapid land-cover change due to cropland expansion and weakened land conservation programs. We conducted a trend analysis and estimated conversion rates of...
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Clint Otto, Haochi Zheng, Alisa L. Gallant, Rich Iovanna, Benjamin L. Carlson, Matthew Smart, Skip Hyberg
Quantifying variance across spatial scales as part of fire regime classifications Quantifying variance across spatial scales as part of fire regime classifications
The emergence of large‐scale fire classifications and products informed by remote sensing data has enabled opportunities to include variability or heterogeneity as part of modern fire regime classifications. Currently, basic fire metrics such as mean fire return intervals are calculated without considering spatial variance in a management context. Fire return intervals are also only...
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Scholtz Rheinhardt, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Sherry A. Leis, Joshua J. Picotte, Dirac Twidwell
Distinguishing Southern Africa precipitation response by strength of El Niño events and implications for decision-making Distinguishing Southern Africa precipitation response by strength of El Niño events and implications for decision-making
December–February precipitation in southern Africa during recent El Niño events is studied by distinguishing circulation and precipitation responses during strong and moderate-to-weak events. We find that while both strong and moderate-to-weak El Niño events tend to dry southern Africa, the pattern and magnitude of precipitation anomalies in the region are different, with strong El Niño...
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Catherine Pomposi, Chris Funk, Shraddhanand Shukla, Tamuka Magadzire
Coastal National Elevation Database Coastal National Elevation Database
The Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) Applications Project develops enhanced topographic (land elevation) and bathymetric (water depth) datasets that serve as valuable resources for coastal hazards research (Danielson and others, 2016; Thatcher and others, 2016). These datasets are used widely for mapping inundation zones from riverine flood events, hurricanes, and sea-level...
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Jeffrey J. Danielson, Sandra K. Poppenga, Dean J. Tyler, Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy, Dean B. Gesch