The First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project) Field Experiment (FIFE) Project was a large-scale climatology project conducted on the prairies of central Kansas from 1987 through 1989. The FIFE Follow-On work included additional analyses of data collected during the initial field campaigns and additional field measurements from 1990 to 1993.

The objectives of both FIFE and FIFE Follow-On were to understand the biophysical processes controlling the fluxes of radiation, moisture, and carbon dioxide between the land surface and the atmosphere and to develop remote-sensing methodologies for observing these processes.

See the FIFE Follow-On Campaign Document.

Continue your exploration of the FIFE Follow-On Project using the following on-line resources:

• FIFE Follow-On Data Set Documents

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• See list of data sets
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• FTP site

Extensive analysis of the remote-sensing data and modeling of the FIFE data were performed in the three years between the publication of the first and second special FIFE issues in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The remote-sensing data were used to determine surface energy budgets, soil moisture and vegetation parameters, surface-atmosphere fluxes, and atmosphere properties. Surface-atmosphere exchanges and atmospheric boundary layer models were used to more completely understand the dynamics measured in the FIFE study.

Related data may also be obtained by accessing the ORNL DAAC's web page for the FIFE Project. FIFE was a large-scale climatology project set in the prairies of central Kansas from 1987 through 1989. This project was designed to improve understanding of carbon and water cycles; to coordinate data collected by satellites, aircraft , and ground instruments; and to use satellites to measure these cycles. The FIFE holdings include background historical data from as early as 1858.