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

Metadata Updated: February 23, 2025

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.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from nasa test json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2785281172-ORNL_CLOUD
Data First Published 2023-10-15
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
Category ISLSCP II, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id cb3124a4-9e63-42a9-a1a4-9454b2f6afb9
Harvest Source Id a73e0c30-4684-40ef-908e-d22e9e9e5f86
Harvest Source Title nasa test json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1006
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash c9494dd85615e53c68b0d817da93d69849d0fd93778c61d20108f17910cf42e1
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z/1988-12-31T23:59:59Z

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