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Derived crop management data for the LandCarbon Project
The LandCarbon project is assessing potential carbon pools and greenhouse gas fluxes under various scenarios and land management regimes to provide information to support the formulation of policies governing climate change mitigation, adaptation and land management strategies. The project is unique in that spatially explicit maps of annual land cover and land-use change are created at the 250-met
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Gail Schmidt, Shu-Guang Liu, Jennifer Oeding
Estimating nonharvested crop residue cover dynamics using remote sensing
No abstract available.
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David Clay, V.P. Obade, C. Carlson, K. Dalsted, Bruce K. Wylie, C. Ren, S.A. Clay
Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas fluxes in the Great Plains region of the United States
This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and to improve understanding of carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in the Great Plains region in the central part of the United States. The assessment examined carbon storage, carbon fluxes, and other GHG fluxes (methane and nitrous oxide) in all major terrestrial
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Michelle Bouchard, David Butman, Todd Hawbaker, Zhengpeng Li, Jinxun Liu, Shu-Guang Liu, Cory McDonald, Ryan R. Reker, Kristi Sayler, Benjamin Sleeter, Terry Sohl, Sarah Stackpoole, Anne Wein, Zhi-Liang Zhu
Quantifying the hydrological responses to climate change in an intact forested small watershed in southern China
Responses of hydrological processes to climate change are key components in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) assessment. Understanding these responses is critical for developing appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies for sustainable water resources management and protection of public safety. However, these responses are not well understood and little long-term eviden
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Guo-Yi Zhou, Xiaohua Wei, Yiping Wu, Shu-Guang Liu, Yuhui Huang, Junhua Yan, Deqiang Zhang, Qianmei Zhang, Juxiu Liu, Ze Meng, Chunlin Wang, Guowei Chu, Shizhong Liu, Xu-Li Tang, Xiaodong Liu
Metadata for data rescue and data at risk
Scientific data age, become stale, fall into disuse and run tremendous risks of being forgotten and lost. These problems can be addressed by archiving and managing scientific data over time, and establishing practices that facilitate data discovery and reuse. Metadata documentation is integral to this work and essential for measuring and assessing high priority data preservation cases. The Interna
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William L. Anderson, John Faundeen, Jane Greenberg, Fraser Taylor
Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: Processes, data, models, and challenges
Forest disturbances greatly alter the carbon cycle at various spatial and temporal scales. It is critical to understand disturbance regimes and their impacts to better quantify regional and global carbon dynamics. This review of the status and major challenges in representing the impacts of disturbances in modeling the carbon dynamics across North America revealed some major advances and challenge
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Shuguang Liu, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Rodrigo Vargas, Shuqing Zhao, Jing Chen, Steven L. Edburg, Yueming Hu, Jinxun Liu, A. David McGuire, Jingfeng Xiao, Robert Keane, Wenping Yuan, Jianwu Tang, Yiqi Luo, Christopher Potter, Jennifer Oeding
Breast and cervical cancer screening patterns among American Indian women at IHS clinics in Montana and Wyoming
Objectives.We investigated factors associated with primary and secondary breast and cervical cancer screening among American Indian (AI) women receiving care from the Indian Health Service (IHS) in Montana and Wyoming.Methods.Rates of primary screening (i.e., screening without evidence of a prior abnormal) and secondary screening during a three-year period (2004–2006) were determined in an age- an
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Robin T. Wilson, Jennifer Giroux, Kathryn R. Kasicky, Bethany H. Fatupaito, Eric C. Wood, Renee Crichlow, Neil A. Sun Rhodes, Jennifer Tingueley, Andrea Walling, Kathryn Langwell, N. Cobb
Foreward: Special issue: Haiti 2010 Earthquake
No abstract available.
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Jie Shan, Ronald T. Eguchi, Brenda Jones
Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature
We utilize a variety of climate datasets to examine impacts of two mechanisms on precipitation in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) during northern-hemisphere summer. First, surface-pressure gradients draw moist air toward the GHA from the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Congo Basin. Variability of the strength of these gradients strongly influences GHA precipitation totals and accounts for important p
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A. Park Williams, Christopher C. Funk, Joel Michaelsen, Sara A. Rauscher, Iain Robertson, Tommy H. G. Wils, Marcin Koprowski, Zewdu Eshetu, Neil J. Loader
Using observed warming to identify hazards to Mozambique maize production
New Perspectives on Crop Yield Constraints because of Climate Change. Climate change impact assessments usually focus on changes to precipitation because most global food production is from rainfed cropping systems; however, other aspects of climate change may affect crop growth and potential yields.A recent (2011) study by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Climate Hazards Group,
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Christopher C. Funk, Laura Harrison, Gary Eilerts
Developing a regional canopy fuels assessment strategy using multi-scale lidar
Accurate assessments of canopy fuels are needed by fire scientists to understand fire behavior and to predict future fire occurrence. A key descriptor for canopy fuels is canopy bulk density (CBD). CBD is closely linked to the structure of the canopy; therefore, lidar measurements are particularly well suited to assessments of CBD. LANDFIRE scientists are exploring methods to integrate airborne an
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Birgit E. Peterson, Kurtis Nelson
Tracking change over time
Landsat satellites capture images of Earth from space-and have since 1972! These images provide a long-term record of natural and human-induced changes on the global landscape. Comparing images from multiple years reveals slow and subtle changes as well as rapid and devastating ones. Landsat images are available over the Internet at no charge. Using the free software MultiSpec, students can track
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