The International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) is part of the Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project and is responsible for process modeling, data retrieval algorithms, field experiment design and execution, and the development of global data sets. The First ISLSCP Field Experiment (FIFE) data are archived at the ORNL DAAC

Since its inception in 1983, ISLSCP has conceived and participated in a number of workshops, field experiments and the production and publication of a collection of global data sets to support energy, water, and biogeochemical cycling studies covering 1987 to 1988 -- the ISLSCP Initiative I.

The ISLSCP Initiative II data collection is designed to support modeling studies of the global carbon, water and energy cycle. This data collection contains 50 global time series spanning the ten-year period 1986 to 1995. The data for Initiative II were acquired from a number of U.S. and international agencies, universities, and institutions, then co-registered to equal-angle grids of one degree, one-half and one-quarter degree resolution and reformatted into a common ASCII format.

Continue your exploration of the ISLSCP II project using the following on-line resources:

• ISLSCP II Data Archive (Goddard)
• ISLSCP II Related Projects
• ISLSCP II Supporting Institutions
• ISLSCP II Data Visualization Tools

Find and order data sets:

• See List of data sets
• Browse by attributes

The complete ISLSCP II data collection is available at the ISLSCP II project office at Goddard.

This data collection is currently being archived at the ORNL DAAC.

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The collection includes a variety of remotely sensed data sets ranging from visible to microwave wavelengths. The data sets also include improved topography, surface radiation, near-surface meteorology, precipitation, runoff, and soils data sets that can be used in a variety of interdisciplinary research activities. Several data sets to support global carbon and biogeochemical studies are also provided.

The ISLSCP II interdisciplinary data sets were compiled to meet the requirements of the International GEWEX Project Office (IGPO), and the International Geosphere Biosphere Program Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (IGBP/BAHC). This project is one of several projects within the Global Hydrology Project (GHP) of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), and has the lead role in addressing land-atmosphere interactions -- specifically, process modeling, data retrieval algorithms, field experiment design and execution, and the development of global data sets.