Appendix E

Appendix E Summary of Datasets (2000)

This access to data on the Web will undoubtedly change with time, but these topic areas provide the reader with topics (and sites) to start with. Atmospheric data: http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/reanalysis Soils Soil wetness (Dirmeyer et al. 1999) Soils (Miller and White 1998): http://EarthInteractions.org Soil water holding capacity (Kern 1995a, b). Active layer in permafrost regions [Circumpolar Active-Layer Monitoring Network (CALM)]: http://www.geography.uc.edu/∼ kenhinke/ CALM Land use history: http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/index.html Snow and sea ice National Snow and Ice Data Center: http://nsidc.org Byrd Polar Research Center: http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu National Ice Center: http://www.natice.noaa.gov National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: http://www. nohrsc.nws.gov Vegetation data Ramanukutty and Foley historical crop data: http://cpep.meteor.wisc.edu/pages/ available.html NOAA/NASA Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS): http://ldas. gsfc.nasa.gov Land cover: http://www.usgs.gov (link to the EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Soils and roots (Feddes et al. 2001) Ocean data Sea surface temperatures Climate Diagnostics Center: ftp.cdc.noaa.gov Surface Radiative Fluxes–Rachel Pinker (personal communication, 1999) http: //www.meto.umd.edu/∼ srb/gcip 570