Overview
The International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project, Initiative II
(ISLSCP II) Project was part of the
Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) and was responsible for addressing
land-atmosphere interactions, process modeling, data retrieval algorithms,
field experiment design and execution, and the development of global data
sets. The ISLSCP II data set collection contains about 50 comprehensive
data sets over the 10 year period from 1986 through 1995 focused on land
cover, hydrometeorology, radiation, and soils.
The ISLSCP II data were acquired from a number of U.S. and international agencies, universities, and institutions, then co-registered to equal-angle grids of one, one-half, and one-quarter degree resolution and reformatted into a common ASCII format.
The ORNL DAAC ISLSCP II Data archive includes data products from the following categories:
- Ancillary data
- Carbon
- Hydrology and Soils
- Near Surface Meteorology
- Radiation and Clouds
- Snow, Sea Ice, and Oceans
- Socioeconomics
- Vegetation
ISLSCP_II Resources
The following ISLSCP II resources are maintained by the ORNL DAAC:
- The First ISLSCP Field Experiment (FIFE) Project
- The First ISLSCP Field Experiment (FIFE) Follow-On Project
Get ISLSCP II Data
Find and order data sets:
- See list of data sets and download data
- Browse ISLSCP_II Data Holdings by selected attributes
- Retrieve ISLSCP_II data by FTP browse
- Search ISLSCP II Metadata (Mercury)