Basic Meteorological Data During the Forest Ecosystem Dynamics - Multisensor Airborne Campaign

Forest Ecosystem Dynamics Multisensor Airborne Campaign (FED MAC): Basic Meteorological Data The Biospheric Sciences Branch (formerly Earth Resources Branch) within the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and associated University investigators are involved in a research program entitled Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (FED) which is fundamentally concerned with vegetation change of forest ecosystems at local to regional spatial scales (100 to 10,000 meters) and temporal scales ranging from monthly to decadal periods (10 to 100 years).

The nature and extent of the impacts of these changes, as well as the feedbacks to global climate, may be addressed through modeling the interactions of the vegetation, soil, and energy components of the boreal ecosystem. Basic meteorological data measurements taken during the FED MAC campaigns in July 1989 and September 1990 from HF1 (CAL) and NOA (NOAA) dataloggers. Data described here are raw data recorded directly from the dataloggers to cassette tapes and written to PC in ASCII format.