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Olson's CDIAC Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation at 30-Minute Resolution
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A computerized database used to generate a global vegetation
map of 44 different land ecosystem complexes comprising seven
broad groups is provided. The database provides a basis for
making improved estimates of vegetation areas and carbon
quantities, of natural biological exchanges of CO2, and
eventually of the net historic shifts of carbon between the
biosphere and the atmosphere.
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Grid
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Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.75S Northernmost=89.75N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
0.5° x 0.5°, 179.75W to 179.75E and 89.75N to 89.75S (720 x 360 Longitude/Latitude)
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DOE/ORNL/ESD/CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy
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Olson, J.S., J.A. Watts and L.J. Allison, 1985: Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: A Database. NDP-017, Carbon Dioxide Information Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 164 pp.
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds769.0."
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0.16 MBytes
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ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Will Spangler (303-497-1217)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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