TY - GEN T1 - ABoVE: Fractional Open Water Cover for Pan-Arctic and ABoVE-Domain Regions, 2002-2015 AU - DU, J. AU - KIMBALL, J.S. AU - WATTS, J.D. DO - 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1362 UR - http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1362 AB - This data set provides land surface fractional open water cover maps for two overlapping regions: the entire pan-Arctic region (latitude >= 45 degrees) and the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) domain across Alaska and Canada. The data represent a fractional water average over a 10-day time step at 5-km spatial resolution for the period 2002-2015. Data represent the aerial portion of a grid cell covered by open water. The data were produced using high frequency (89 GHz) brightness temperatures from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), with other ancillary inputs from AMSR-E/AMSR2 25-km products and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The resulting data record for fractional water is suitable for documenting open water patterns and inundation dynamics in boreal-Arctic ecosystems experiencing rapid climate change. PY - 2016 PB - ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center LA - en ER -