The ORNL DAAC is dedicated to archival and distribution of biogeochemical and ecological products useful for studying environmental processes. Numerous articles are available on the World Wide Web regarding these processes. This page highlights some of the articles relating to DAAC study areas.

Earth Science Topics

• An Overview of the Earth Science Enterprise (Mar. 2002) (pdf)
• El Niño (Aug. 1999) (pdf)
• La Niña (Jun. 1999) (pdf)
• Global Warming (Jun. 2002) (pdf)
• Ozone ( Jan. 2001) (pdf)
• Clouds and the Energy Cycle (Aug. 1999) (pdf)
• Tropical Deforestation (Nov. 1998) (pdf)
• The Greenhouse Effect (Jun. 1993)

Terra Articles

• Terra (Aug. 1999) (pdf)
• Aerosols (Jun. 1999) (pdf)
• Changing Global Cloudiness (Jun. 1999) (pdf)
• Changing Global Land Surface (Jun. 1999) (pdf)
• Earth's Energy Balance (Jun. 1999) (pdf)
• The Roles of the Ocean in Climate Change (Jun. 1999) (pdf)

Aqua Articles

• Aqua (Feb. 2002) (pdf)
• CERES: Understanding the Earth's Clouds and Climate (Mar. 2002) (pdf)
• The Water Cycle (Sep. 2000) (pdf)
• Weather Forecasting Through the Ages (Feb. 2002) (pdf)

Boreal Ecosystems / Forests

• Introduction to BOREAS, the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
• The Mystery of the Missing Carbon
• Should We Talk About the Weather?
• Evolving in the Presence of Fire
• Silvus Borealis
• Snow Sleuths
• The Migrating Boreal Forest
• The Dirt on Carbon

Amazonian Ecosystems

• Media Alert: Amazon Trees Much Older than Assumed
• Fire Emergency in Acre, Brazil
• Introduction to the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
• Escape from the Amazon
• The Road to Recovery
• River Seasons
• Tropical Deforestation
• From Forest to Field: How Fire is Transforming the Amazon
• A Rainforest Divided

Carbon Studies

• The Carbon Cycle
• The Mystery of the Missing Carbon
• Rain Helps Carbon Sink
• Carbon Conundrum
• The Dirt on Carbon

Climatology

• Land Matters
• Should We Talk About the Weather?

Grasslands/Arid Ecosystems

• Grasslands Initiative
• Fiery Temperament

Validation

• From the Ground Up (2004) (pdf)
• Well Grounded
• A View from Above