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BOREAS Follow-On Project/Campaign Document

Summary:

The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) Follow-on project extended and built upon original BOREAS scientific results and data. A common set of existing BOREAS in situ and remote-sensing data was compiled at point, study area, and regional scales for use by Follow-on investigators. Follow-on investigations were integrative, interdisciplinary, and focused on modeling and regional-scale analyses. The development and intercomparison of the various carbon, water, and energy flux models was a major objective. More information is available on-line at http://daac.ornl.gov/BOREAS/FollowOn/followon_home_page.html .

The original BOREAS project, as part of NASA's Earth Science Research and Analysis Program, was a large-scale experiment from 1993 through 1996 to designed to investigate the interactions between the boreal forest biome and the atmosphere. Surface, airborne, and satellite-based observations were collected to study the biological and physical processes and conditions that govern the exchanges of radiative energy, water, heat, carbon, and trace gases between boreal forest ecosystems and the atmosphere, particularly those processes that may be sensitive to global change. Data were collected at representative sites in the boreal forest of central Canada. More information is available on-line at http://daac.ornl.gov/BOREAS/boreas_home_page.html .

1. Project/Campaign Overview:

Name of Project/Campaign:

Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study Follow-On Project, BOREAS Follow-On

Project/Campaign Introduction:

BOREAS Follow-On investigators performed further analyses of data from the BOREAS project. Follow-on investigations were more integrative, interdisciplinary, and focused on modeling and regional-scale analyses. The development and intercomparison of the various carbon, water, and energy flux models was a major objective. The original BOREAS project was a large-scale experiment that collected surface, airborne, and satellite-based observations of the biological and physical processes and conditions that govern the exchanges of radiative energy, water, heat, carbon, and trace gases between boreal forest ecosystems and the atmosphere in the boreal forest of central Canada.

Project/Campaign Mission Objectives:

The key BOREAS Follow-On objectives included improving process models that describe the exchanges of radiative energy, water, heat, carbon, and trace constituents between the boreal forest biome and the atmosphere and developing methods for applying the process models over large spatial scales using remote-sensing and other integrative techniques.

Discipline(s):

Earth science

Geographic Region(s):

Boreal forest of central Canada

Detailed Project/Campaign Description:

BOREAS Follow-On, as a part of NASA's Earth Science Research and Analysis Program, extended and built upon original BOREAS scientific results and data. A common set of existing BOREAS in situ and remote-sensing data was compiled at point, study area, and regional scales for use by Follow-on investigators. Follow-on investigations were more integrative, interdisciplinary, and focused on modeling and regional-scale analyses. The development and intercomparison of the various carbon, water, and energy flux models was a major objective.

BOREAS itself was a large-scale experiment from 1993 through 1996 designed to investigate the interactions between the boreal forest biome and the atmosphere. Surface, airborne, and satellite-based observations were collected to study the biological and physical processes and conditions that govern the exchanges of radiative energy, water, heat, carbon, and trace gases between boreal forest ecosystems and the atmosphere, particularly those processes that may be sensitive to global change. Data were collected at representative sites in the boreal forest of central Canada.

2. Data Availability:

Data Type(s): Imagery and tabular data.

Input/Output Media:

Selected data and imagery files are available from the ORNL DAAC Web site (http://daac.ornl.gov). Data can be downloaded through FTP, and they are available on CD-ROM.

Proprietary Status:

The data are free for public use. 3. Data Access:

Data Center Location:

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) is housed within the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.