ISLSCP

International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project

Completed

https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dataset_lister.pl?p=29
Type of Structure: coordinated project
Regional Scope: global
Parent Organisations: GEWEX.WCRP, ..ICSU, ..IOC
Child Organisations:
Duration : 1986 to 1995 COMPLETED
Contact Address: no office contact defined


General information and objectives

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.

For further details, link to the ISLSCP Home Page

Last update: 4/27/22
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)

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