Sensing Our Planet Archive

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Exposed orchards	Surface reflectance	MODIS	LP DAAC
A glacial place	Terrain Elevation	ALOS PALSAR ASTER	ASF DAAC LP DAAC
Rubble trouble	Orbit predictions	Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) stations	CDDIS
Trapping tapirs	Human population, land cover, land use Elevation FIre and thermal anomalies	Global Human Footprint Index Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) MODIS	LP DAAC SEDAC
Winter blooms in the Arabian Sea	Chlorophyll a concentration Population density	MODIS MODIS	OB.DAAC SEDAC
Heavy weather, high seas	Significant wave height	TOPEX-A TOPEX-B Poseidon-1 Radar Altimeters	PO.DAAC
Heart of drought	Aerosol optical thickness; Cloud optical thickness Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Enhanced Vegetation Index, Temperature, Emissivity, Land cover types Precipitation Terrestrial water storage anomalies Radiative flux Canopy microwave transmittance	MODIS MODIS TRMM GRACE CERES AMSR-E	ASDC GES DISC LAADS DAAC LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC PO.DAAC
Missing heat	Radiance Radiance	CERES Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)	ASDC
Tracing the Tehuano	Ocean surface winds Sea surface temperature Ocean surface winds, sea surface temperature	Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) Coriolis satellite Regional Air-Sea Interaction (RASI) Gap Wind and Coastal Upwelling Events Climatology	GHRC DAAC PO.DAAC
A submarine retreat	Ice sheet elevation, ice sheet thickness Reflectance Reflectance	Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) RADARSAT-1 ALOS PALSAR	ASF DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Burned but not forgotten	Vegetation Snow cover Blue-sky albedo	MODIS MODIS MODIS	LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC ORNL DAAC
Stormy vineyards	Rain reflectivity and rain type Lightning rates, lightning flashes and sensor viewing time, raw flash count	TRMM Optical Transient Detector	GES DISC GHRC DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Rooting out rainfall	Radiant Energy Flux	CERES	ASDC
Profiles in intensity	Total vertical velocity convected vertical velocity	Global Hawk aircraft	GHRC DAAC
Strange bedfellows	Global fire activity net primary productivity	MODIS	SEDAC
Salt of the sea	Sea surface salinity Chlorophyll a	Aquarius SAC_D MODIS	OB.DAAC PO.DAAC
Shake, rattle, and sink	Radar backscatter surface kinetic temperature	PALSAR ASTER MODIS	ASF DAAC LP DAAC LAADS DAAC
Unexpected ice	sea ice concentration	SSMR and SSM/I	NSIDC DAAC
Zebras without borders	NDVI precipitation rate	MODIS TRMM Microwave Imager	GES DISC LP DAAC
A baffling signal in the tropics	Cloud top rainfall type (convective or stratiform) rainfall rate rainfall profile rainfall characteristics	MODIS AMSR-E TRMM	GES DISC LAADS DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Microbes in the murk	Chlorophyll a Photosynthetically active radiation	SeaWiFS	OB.DAAC
Connecting the drops	Temperature Precipitation surface radiation snow water equivalent vapor pressure Land surface temperature emissivity	MODIS	LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
A speed bump in space-time	Time	GPS GLONASS	CDDIS
The price of tea	Reflectance	ASTER	LP DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
On the trail of contrails	Clouds and computed flux profile	MODIS	LAADS DAAC
Mercury raining	Aerosol optical depth sea ice extent sea ice surface temperature bromine sea ice class distribution melt on sea ice Brightness temperatures sea ice concentration snow depth	MODIS OMI SeaWinds QuikSCAT SSMIS AMSR-E	GES DISC LAADS DAAC NSIDC DAAC PO.DAAC
Crazy bad air	Human population density Aerosol optical depth	GRUMP MODIS MISR CIESIN	ASDC LAADS DAAC SEDAC
A tale of two rivers	InSAR	ALOS PALSAR	ASF DAAC
Sizing a tsunami	Latitude and longitude	Global Positioning System (GPS)	CDDIS
The secrets of leaves	Eddy covariance	AmeriFlux	ORNL DAAC
Signs of snow	Ice sheet and sea ice elevation ice sheet topography sea ice elevation snow depth	Airborne Topographic Mapper	NSIDC DAAC
Making heads of mares' tails	Lidar backscatter	CALIPSO	ASDC
Pedestrians of Eddy Avenue	Chlorophyll a concentration	MODIS	OB.DAAC
When oceans drop	Gravity fields Precipitation	GRACE TRMM	GES DISC PO.DAAC
Cold, symmetric, and cryptic	Snow properties	Aircraft radiometers profilers radars disdrometers precipitation gauges	GHRC DAAC
Not so big, not so hot	Radiance geolocation	ASTER MODIS	LP DAAC LAADS DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Orbiting watchtowers	Thermal anomalies/fire products	Terra Aqua MODIS	LAADS DAAC
Foot and plow	Reflectance Vegetation Land surface temperature	Terra MODIS	LP DAAC
Biomes in the balance	Leaf Area Index (LAI) Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)	Terra MODIS	LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
Winter's water	Surface reflectance snow cover snow water equivalent	Terra Aqua MODIS SNODAS	LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Leaking lakes	Reflectance	SAR	ASF DAAC
New angles	Reflectance	Terra MISR	ASDC
A new pole hole	Ozone Trace gas profiles Ozone profile Clouds Aerosols	Aura CALIPSO OMI MLS CALIOP	GES DISC ASDC
A kink in the jet stream	Cloud fraction precipitation rate Radiance	Terra Aqua TRMM MODIS AIRS	GES DISC LAADS DAAC
Where on Earth?	Global positioning	GPS LAGEOS-1 and -2 TOPEX/Poseidon Jason-1 and -2 Envisat Cryosat-2 HY-2A SPOT-2 -3 -4 -5	CDDIS
Prosperity shining	population	Gridded Population of the World GRUMPv1	SEDAC
Shadowing the tuna boats	Sea surface temperature ocean color	Terra Aqua SeaStar MODIS SeaWiFS	OB.DAAC PO.DAAC
Fleeting phytoplankton	Chlorophyll a concentration	Nimbus 7 SeaStar CZCS SeaWiFS	OB.DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Once more into the storm	Hurricanes	Terra Aqua CloudSat TRMM	GHRC DAAC
Repatterning the world	Anthropogenic biomes land cover	Terra MODIS	LP DAAC SEDAC
Volatile trees	Aerosol optical depth	MODIS	LAADS DAAC
Looking for mud	Latitude and longitude	GPS	CDDIS
Hidden carbon	Brightness temperature Vegetation canopy microwave transmittance land cover Vegetation	Aqua Terra AMSR-E MODIS	LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Baja's fault	Land surface Topography	ALOS PALSAR	ASF DAAC
The un-ice age	Gravity fields	GRACE	PO.DAAC
The time of cholera	Chlorophyll concentration	SeaWiFS	OB.DAAC
Waiting for Gojal	Elevation Radiance glacier outlines	Terra Earth Observing 1 ASTER ALI	LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC
A black cloud over Cairo	Aerosols MODIS thermal anomaly product	Terra MISR MODIS	GES DISC ASDC
The feather followers	NDVI Vegetation index quality	MODIS	ORNL DAAC
Growing Jamaica	Precipitation	TRMM	GES DISC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Invasion of the ctenophores	Photosynthetically active radiation Chlorophyll a concentration	SeaWiFS MODIS	OB.DAAC
Unearthly dunes	Reflectance digital elevation	ASTER	LP DAAC
A speck on the ocean	Clouds and computed flux profile	CERES	ASDC
The dirt on tornadoes	Precipitation	TRMM	GES DISC
When a day is not a day	Latitude and longitude Earth orientation Earth rotation	Global Positioning System (GPS) Laser Geodynamics Satellite 1 (LAGEOS-1) Radio telescopes radio sources	CDDIS
On shaky ground	Human population density	Gridded Population of the World	SEDAC
Cosmic charges	Lightning	National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) operated by Vaisala Incorporated	GHRC DAAC
Probing the Black Current	Ocean bottom pressure	GRACE	PO.DAAC
Heart disease in the air	Aerosol optical depth	MODIS	LAADS DAAC
Himalaya's heat pump	Glacier extent	ASTER	LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Seeing the forest for the carbon	Vegetation cover Vegetation Elevation	PALSAR MODIS GLAS	ASF DAAC LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Clues in the nectar	NDVI EVI phenology	MODIS	ORNL DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Distant fields of grain	NDVI EVI	MODIS	LP DAAC
Experiment in the sky	Aerosol optical depth Radiance Aerosol backscatter	OMI AIRS MODIS CALIOP	GES DISC ASDC LAADS DAAC
A snag in space-time	Laser ranging data Global gravity fields	LAGEOS-1 and -2 GRACE	CDDIS PO.DAAC
Fathoming Antarctica	Ice sheet elevation profiles Radiances Digital image map Ice velocity	GLAS MODIS SAR	ASF DAAC LAADS DAAC NSIDC DAAC
A catalog of change	Physical and biological impacts of climate change	IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Observed Climate Change Impacts Database	SEDAC
The mysterious lives of leatherbacks	Sea surface temperature Chlorophyll a concentration	GOES AVHRR SeaWiFS MODIS	OB.DAAC PO.DAAC
Finite forests	Surface reflectance	MODIS	LAADS DAAC
Notebook and satellite	Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) NDVI EVI Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) Normalized Difference Infrared Index (NDII)	MODIS	LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
Drying in Denali	land cover	SAR	ASF DAAC
Smoke over Athens	Aerosol optical depth Plume height Aerosol index and associated aerosol types	MODIS MISR OMI	GES DISC ASDC LAADS DAAC
Probing the Arctic atmosphere	Arctic atmosphere	Aircraft tracking ARCTAS	GHRC DAAC ASDC
An ocean full of deserts	Chlorophyll Sea surface temperature	SeaWiFS AVHRR	OB.DAAC PO.DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Freezing in a warming world	Temperature water vapor sensible heat radiation flux for Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) FPAR	AmeriFlux and FLUXNET MODIS	LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
Cleaner water from space	Radiances	MODIS	LAADS DAAC
Younger sea ice and scarcer polar bears	Brightness temperatures sea ice concentration snow cover over sea ice Brightness temperatures ice extent	AMSR-E SSMR and SSM/I	NSIDC DAAC
Scorecard on the environment	Environmental indicators	Environmental Performance Index	SEDAC
Where oceans meet atmosphere	Wind vectors Sea surface height Sea surface temperature	SeaWinds Nadir-pointing radar altimeter AMSR-E	NSIDC DAAC PO.DAAC
Aerosols over Australia	Aerosols Thermal anomalies/fire products Aerosol optical depth	MISR MODIS	ASDC LP DAAC LAADS DAAC
Sensing the swamp beneath the trees	Water level	SAR	ASF DAAC
Regional pollution goes local	Carbon monoxide	AIRS	GES DISC
The power of a Brazilian wind	Surface wind speed	SeaWinds	PO.DAAC
Earth's crust in action	Latitude and longitude	GPS	CDDIS
When the Earth moved Kashmir	Land surface	ASTER	LP DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Grasping the subtle needs of vegetation	Vegetation indices	Flux towers MODIS	LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
Pollution trials for the Beijing Olympics	Nitric oxide	OMI	GES DISC
Following the World Trade Center plume	Aerosols	MISR	ASDC
Pinpointing an invasive plant's next move	Land cover type	MODIS	LP DAAC
After the Larsen B	Land ice Elevation	ASTER MODIS GLAS	LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Saharan dust versus Atlantic hurricanes	Aerosols water vapor	LASE	GHRC DAAC
Getting at groundwater with gravity	Gravity groundwater	GRACE	PO.DAAC
Connecting rainfall and landslides	rainfall landslides	TRMM	GES DISC
Can Earth's plants keep up with us?	Biomass population	Gridded Population of the World AVHRR	ORNL DAAC SEDAC
Burgundy through space and time	Land use	SAR ASTER	ASF DAAC NSIDC DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Cloud to cloud: Forecasting storm severity with lightning	Lightning	National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) operated by Vaisala Incorporated 3-D Lightning Mapping Array (LMA)	GHRC DAAC
Cattle, crops, and coral: Flood plumes and the Great Barrier Reef	Suspended matter chlorophyll-a concentration	MODIS	GES DISC
Predicting productivity: Managing land from space	Biomass	MODIS	LP DAAC
Seeing climate through the lives of plants	Vegetation	MODIS	LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
Arctic sea ice on the wane: Now what?	Brightness temperature sea ice concentrations snow depth over sea ice Elevation Reflectance Backscatter	SMMR and SSM/I AMSR-E GLAS SAR	ASF DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Data more powerful than hurricanes	Wind speed population	RADARSAT-1 U.S. Census Grids	ASF DAAC SEDAC
On the trail of global pollution drift	Ozone Carbon monoxide	TES	ASDC
Nature's contribution	Carbon monoxide	MOPITT	ASDC
Gridding the risks of natural disasters	population natural disasters	Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis	SEDAC
Mapping the changing forests of Africa	Biomass	MODIS	LP DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Bloom or Bust: The Bond Between Fish and Phytoplankton	ocean color	Sea WiFS MODIS	GES DISC
Making Waves in Tsunami Research	wave height change	JASON TOPEX Poseidon	PO.DAAC
Malaria by the Numbers	global urban rural mapping	Gridded Population of the World	SEDAC
Cloudy with a Chance of Drizzle	actinoform cloud formation and complexity	MISR	ASDC
Riding the Permafrost Express	surface soil freeze and thaw	SSM/I AMSR-E	NSIDC DAAC
A Rainforest Divided	effects of land use changes	Forest fragment grids	ORNL DAAC
Checking Earth's Vital Signs	global ecosystem health	Gridded Population of the World	SEDAC
SPoRTscast	hyper-accurate weather forecasting	GOES GOES-R MODIS NPOESS AMSR-E AIRS	GHRC DAAC
In Search of Martian Craters	geography of Martian craters	THEMIS ASTER	LP DAAC
Matter in Motion: Earth's Changing Gravity	gravity variations	GRACE	PO.DAAC
Silent Signals	ground movement and deformation	InSAR GPS	ASF DAAC
War on Hunger	Identify hunger	Gridded Population of the World	SEDAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Seeing the City for the Trees	urban land cover	ATLAS Landsat MODIS Spectral Mixture Analysis	LP DAAC SEDAC
Stirring up Life	cyclones and phytoplankton production	SeaWiFS QuikSCAT	GES DISC PO.DAAC
The Flood Hunters	flood maps and long-term trends	ERS-I MODIS QuikSCAT SRTM	GES DISC PO.DAAC
Clouds from a Different Angle	cloud cover and climate	CERES TRMM
From the Ground Up	land-atmosphere exchanges	MODIS FLUXNET	LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
Mayan Mysteries	sustainable use of the landscape	Landsat Gridded Population of the World	GHRC DAAC
Sensing Remote Volcanoes	global	MODVOLC MODIS SAR InSAR ASTER SRTM AVHRR	ASF DAAC GES DISC LP DAAC
Sizing up the Earth's Glaciers	inventory of Earth's glaciers	ASTER	LP DAAC NSIDC DAAC
Life in Icy Waters	polynyas and Antarctica	SSN/I SeaWiFS MODIS CZCS	GES DISC NSIDC DAAC
Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf	breakup of Arctic ice shelf	RADARSAT SAR	ASF DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Denali's Fault	earthquake deformation	InSAR SAR ERS-1& 2 RADARSAT-1 Global Positioning System (GPS)	ASF DAAC
Little Islands, Big Wake	ocean currents circulation patterns Hawaii	QuikSCAT TRMM TOPEX Poseidon	GES DISC PO.DAAC
Land Matters	climate modeling	Satellite Imagery Field Observation	GES DISC NSIDC DAAC
Double Vision	ocean surface	Jason-1 SEASAT TOPEX Poseidon	PO.DAAC
The Incredible Glowing Algae	phytoplankton fluorescence	CZCS MODIS Sea WiFS	GES DISC
Squeezing Water from Rock	liquefaction	MISR	ASDC
Lightning Spies	storm life cycles	LIS TRMM ALTUS II	GHRC DAAC
Vanishing Ice	Arctic oscillation	NIMBUS-7 SMMR DMSP SSM/I	NSIDC DAAC
Flame and Flood	fire scars	ASTER Local population grid	LP DAAC
The Human Footprint	impact of human activity	Mapping global human impact as well as wilderness areas	SEDAC
The Road to Recovery	carbon cycle	FLUXNET MODIS	ORNL DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Tracking Clouds	cloud motion and wind measurements	MISR GOES-W	ASDC
Dropping in on a Hurricane	hurricane formation and structure	NCAR Vaisala GPS	GHRC DAAC
Teaching Old Data New Tricks	global climate studies	NSCAT CSP RADARSAT SAR	PO.DAAC
Space-Based Ice Sight	radar mapping of Antarctica	RADARSAT-1 SAR InSAR	ASF DAAC
Hunting Dangerous Algae from Space	algal bloom (red tide)	SeaWiFS MODIS AVHRR	GES DISC
Fragment of its Former Shelf	ice shelves and surface melt ponds	AVHRR MODIS	NSIDC DAAC
Fiery Temperament	fire emission detection and vegetation mapping	MODIS AirMISER CORONA	ASDC LP DAAC ORNL DAAC
Hantavirus Risk Maps	disease risk	Landsat Population Grid	LP DAAC
Scientist for a Day	surface data collection by elementary students	AVHRR MODIS	NSIDC DAAC
Domes of Destruction	volcanic domes	ASTER	LP DAAC
Tais that Bind	changing language and water resource patterns	Population Grid GIS	LP DAAC SEDAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
When Land Slides	geohazard assessment	Landsat RADARSAT-1 InSAR RM SAR SRTM ERS	ASF DAAC
New Light on Ice Motion	Antarctic topography and ice history	MODIS Landsat AVHRR	NSIDC DAAC
Clouds in the Balance	cloud vertical structure and radiation balance	CERES ERBS SAGE-II	ASDC
A View From Above	carbon exchange between forests and atmosphere	SVAT FLUXNET MODIS EROS	ORNL DAAC
Well Grounded	MODIS land validation project.	MODIS Landsat7 TM ETM+ SPOT AVHRR ISIN	ORNL DAAC
Measure for Measure	coastal populations and sea level rise	GPW MISRE Digital Elevation Model	SEDAC
Life on the Brink	population distributions near volcanoes	Active Volcano Database GPW	SEDAC
Location, Location, Location	distribution of wealth	GPW. GIS. GNP	SEDAC
In the Eyewall of the Storm	hurricane tracking and intensification	EDOP MACAWS	GHRC DAAC
From the Dust Bowl to the Sahel	drought and desertification		GES DISC
When the Dust Settles	African dust transport and marine species declines	SeaWiFS TOMS Landsat-7	GES DISC
Forecasting Fury	hurricane detection	GOES SeaWiFS ERS-2 QuikSCAT
Where Frogs Live	hyperspectral mapping of amphibian populations	TOMS ENVI GIS	GES DISC
New Tools for Diplomacy	remote sensing use in international law.	TIROS-1 Landsat EOS Terra Aqua SPOT	SEDAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
The universal language of HDF-EOS	standard file format for satellite data	HDF-EOS	NSIDC DAAC
Frozen Soils and the Climate System	frozen ground and ecosystem productivity	EASE-Grid	NSIDC DAAC
Disintegration of the Ninnis Glacier Tongue	Antarctic sea ice	SAR AVHRR JERS-1 Landsat	NSIDC DAAC
Volcanoes and Climate Change	volcanic aerosols and climate change	SAGE II UARS	GES DISC ASDC
Polynyas, CO2, and Diatoms in the Southern Ocean	polynyas and phytoplankton	CZCS	GES DISC NSIDC DAAC
Perspective on Plants	MODIS and land management	MODIS PSN NPP LAI/FPAR
Stars, Clouds, Crops	agriculture and El Niño	TOVS SAGE II ISCCP	GES DISC ASDC
Climate Clues in the Ice	sea ice thinning	SMMR SMM/I	NSIDC DAAC
Illuminating Photosynthesis in the Arabian Sea	oceanic seasonal cycles and phytoplankton	CZCS TOMS	GES DISC
Human Impact on the Mojave	disturbance to desert ecosystems	Landsat-5 AVIRIS AVHRR Landsat-7
Snow and Ice Extent	sea ice	NISE	NSIDC DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Distributed Oceanographic Data System	Intelligent data interfaces	DODS IDL HDF-EOS	PO.DAAC
The Mercury System and the Search for Earth Science Data	new data search tool	EDG	ORNL DAAC

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Title	Parameter	ata Type	DAACs
The NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program	data management standards
The UARS Cornucopia: A Legacy of Research	atmosphere	UARS
On a Clear Day	albedo	ERBE TIROS CERES	ASDC
Shadows of Doubt: Modeling Cloud Effects	cloud effects	WFOV CMATRIX	ASDC
Hurricane Field Studies	hurrican forecasting	CAMEX-3	GHRC DAAC
Lovely, Dark and Deep	ocean mixing	TOPEX Poseidon	PO.DAAC
Ice and Sky	open water in polar ice	RADARSAT SAR	ASF DAAC
Overcoming Data Incompatibility	data management	DODS	PO.DAAC
Virtual Data Center	Virtual domain application data center	VDADC
Effects of Emissions on Climate Change	human-caused climate change	CIESIN	SEDAC
A New Paradigm for Managing Data and Information	web-based data system	LBA-E	ORNL DAAC
Equal Area Scalable Earth Grid: A Move Toward Data Mapping Standards	EASE-Grid	AVHRR	NSIDC DAAC
Eye on the Sun	solar energy	UARS SOLSTICE

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
China Dimensions	Chinese demography	CIESIN	SEDAC
Carbon Conundrum	atmospheric carbon dioxide	AVHRR
Growing Data	arctic vegetation	AVHRR
UARS: A Model Data Set	mesosphere	UARS
Outer Limits	upper atmosphere	UARS
River Seasons	Amazon River system	passive microwave radiometers	ORNL DAAC
Questioning Convection	climate model accuracy	ERBE	ASDC
Blanket of Clouds	albedo	SAGE II ARESE	ASDC
Upper Crust	sea ice melt and krill	SSM/I SSMR	NSIDC DAAC
Eye on the Ocean	ocean monitoring system	TOPEX Poseidon
On Thin Ice	lake ice	DMSP SSM/I EASE-Grid	NSIDC DAAC
Snow Sleuths	snow pack	BOREAS	ORNL DAAC
The Dirt on Carbon	carbon flux and permafrost melt	BOREAS	ORNL DAAC
RAMPing Up	Antarctica imagery and mapping	RAMP	NSIDC DAAC
Melt-down	Greenland ice sheet	SEASAT NSCAT ERS SSM/I SSMR	NSIDC DAAC
Glacier Power	education	SAR	ASF DAAC
Critical Chemistry	Ozone	GTE	ASDC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
The Color of Disease	harmful algal blooms infectious disease	CZCS
Data Made Easy	software development	SAR RIVA	ASF DAAC
Snowlines over Kathmandu	snow cover monsoons	DMSP/OLS DEM	NSIDC DAAC
Reckoning with Winds	typhoons and monsoons	NSCAT	PO.DAAC
Silvus Borealis	carbon flux	BOREAS	ORNL DAAC
Fish in the Trees	Amazon flood patterns	SAR	ASF DAAC
A Model Quest	hydrologic models	WATFLOOD	LP DAAC
Laying the Groundwork	land cover	PAL
Highs and Lows of Temperature	global climate change	MSU	GHRC DAAC
A Burning Question	atmospheric aerosols	AVHRR ERBE	ASDC
Clouds in a Clear Sky	water vapor dynamics	SAGE II	ASDC
Data in a Flash	lightning detection	OTD MSU
Fire and Ice	Greenland ice sheet	SSM/I SSMR	NSIDC DAAC
Grasslands Initiative	net primary productivity	GPPDI	ORNL DAAC
Polar Paradox	polar sea ice	SSM/I SSMR	NSIDC DAAC
Visions of a Cloudy Continent	Antarctica imagery and mapping	AVHRR Landsat	LP DAAC
Through a Glass Darkly: Envisioning Ocean Heat Budget	atmospheric-ocean heat flux	TOPEX/Poseidon	PO.DAAC
Crime and Work	demography	PUMS	SEDAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
The Human Equation	human factors climate change	Global Population Database	SEDAC
The Magic of Water	soil moisture	ISLSCP
"But the winds . . . but the spaces . . ."	intraseasonal oscillation	ISCCP	ASDC
Ice Happens	Arctic ice pack	RADARSAT SAR	ASF DAAC
At the Edge	Arctic sea ice	SSM/I SSMR	NSIDC DAAC
Phytoplankton and Polynyas	net primary productivity	Nimbus-7 SMMR DMSP SSM/I	NSIDC DAAC
Transcending Boundaries	net primary productivity	ISLSCP
Where Data Meet Models	climate models	AVHRR SSM/I ERBE ISCCP MODIS MISR ASTER	ASDC
Storm Census	mesoscale convective systems	SSM/I
Sowing the Seeds of Change?	land use change	AVHRR	LP DAAC
El Niño or Not?	Pacific warming event	TOPEX/Poseidon ERS-1 visibl- infrared radiometer SSM/I	PO.DAAC
Oceanography Findings Make Waves	oceanic Rossby waves	TOPEX/Poseidon ERS-1 Geosat	PO.DAAC
Rising above Tide Gauges	sea level rise	TOPEX/Poseidon	PO.DAAC
Back from the Field	land surface hydrology Precipitation	FIFE	ORNL DAAC

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Title	Parameter	Data Type	DAACs
Accuracy of Topographic Maps Derived from ERS-1 Interferometric Radar	radar satellite interferometry	ERS-1	ASF DAAC
A Remote Sensing Based Vegetation Classification Logic for Global Land Cover Analysis	vegetation classification	AVHRR
A Comparison of Solar Total Irradiance Observations from Spacecraft: 1985-1992	total solar irradiance	Nimbus-7 ERB SMM ACRIM ERBS UARS ACRIM-2
Assimilation of TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter Data into a Circulation Model of the North Atlantic	circulation in North Atlantic	TOPEX/Poseidon
Absorption of Solar Radiation by Clouds: Observations versus Models	absorption of solar radiation by clouds	ERBE	ASDC
Algorithms for the Retrieval of Rainfall from Passive Microwave Measurements	rainfall	DMSP SSM/I
Oceanic Convection in the Greenland Sea Odden Region as Interpreted in Satellite Data	oceanic convection	DMSP SSM/I ERS-1	NSIDC DAAC
Linking Boundary-Layer Circulations and Surface Processes during FIFE 89. Part I: Observational Analysis	boundary-layer circulations	FIFE	ORNL DAAC
Population Data and Global Environmental Change	demography	Global Population Database	SEDAC

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