International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB)

Description

This dataset represents the NCI replica of Department of Energy's ILAMB project data. The International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) project is a model-data intercomparison and integration project designed to improve the performance of land models and, in parallel, improve the design of new measurement campaigns to reduce uncertainties associated with key land surface processes. The ILAMB collection of reference datasets is formatted following CF conventions.

ILAMB datasets cover the following variables: 

ILAMB Collection

• Albedo: CERESed4.1, GEWEX.SRB
• Biomass: ESACCI, GEOCARBON, NBCD2000, Saatchi2011, Thurner, USForest, XuSaatchi2021
• Burned Area: GFED4.1S
• Carbon Dioxide: NOAA.Emulated, HIPPOAToM
• Diurnal Temperature Min/Max/Range: CRU4.02
• Ecosystem Respiration: FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM
• Evapotranspiration: GLEAMv3.3a, MODIS, MOD16A2
• Global Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance: GCP, Hoffman
• Gross Primary Productivity: FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM, WECANN
• Ground Heat Flux: CLASS
• Latent Heat: FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM, DOLCE, CLASS, WECANN
• Leaf Area Index: AVHRR, AVH15C1, MODIS
• Methane: FluxnetANN
• Net Ecosystem Exchange: FLUXNET2015
• Nitrogen Fixation: Davies-Barnard
• Permafrost: Brown2002, Obu2018
• Precipitation: CMAPv1904, FLUXNET2015, GPCCv2018, GPCPv2.3, CLASS
• Runoff: Dai, LORA, CLASS
• Sensible Heat: FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM, CLASS, WECANN
• Snow Water Equivalent: CanSISE
• Soil Carbon: HWSD, NCSCDV22
• Surface Air Temperature: CRU4.02, FLUXNET2015
• Surface Downward LW/SW Radiation: CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN
• Surface Net LW/SW Radiation: CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN
• Surface Net Radiation: CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN, CLASS
• Surface Relative Humidity: ERA5, CRU4.02
• Surface Soil Moisture: WangMao
• Surface Upward LW/SW Radiation: CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN
• Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly: GRACE

For more information on ILAMB, refer to the project website.

Official metadata and access to the data is via the NCI geonetwork record in related identifiers.

These datasets have been replicated to NCI using the ILAMB-FETCH utility provided with ILAMB from the root repository located at https://www.ilamb.org/ILAMB-Data

ILAMB development is primarily performed by the RUBISCO Science Focus Area and supported by the RGMA Activity of the EESSD division of the BER program in the DOE's Office of Science. For more information, refer to the ILAMB website: https://www.ilamb.org Replication of ILAMB datasets was undertaken by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia), an NCRIS enabled capability supported by the Australian Government.

Access information (English)

There's not a preferred citation listed for this data collection, as it is composed by subset of other datasets.

Local host (English)

Direct access to the data is available on the NCI servers:

• path: /g/data/ct11/access-nri/replicas/ILAMB

Register for local access:  

• https://my.nci.org.au/mancini/project/ct11/join

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