Drought conditions set the stage for an intense fire season in California in 2021
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- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Michala Garrison (SSAI)
Scientists
- Chris Hain (NASA/MSFC)
- Elijah Orland (UMBC)
- Forrest Melton (California State University, Monterey Bay)
- Sujay Kumar (NASA/GSFC)
- Thomas Holmes (NASA/GSFC)
- Timothy Lahmers (UMD)
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- Kim Locke (SAIC)
Datasets used in this visualization
Rootzone Soil moisture Anomaly August 14, 2021
Anomaly in Rootzone soil moisture based on 20-year record from 1-km LIS-model run, after assimilation of downscaled SMAP surface moisture product (THySM: Thermal Hydraulic disaggregation of SMAP Soil Moisture).
See more visualizations using this data setEvaporative Stress Index (12-weeks) on August 13, 2021
Atmosphere-Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI) Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) generated by the NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT), based on MODIS-based thermal infrared observations
Credit: Anderson, Martha C., John M. Norman, John R. Mecikalski, Jason A. Otkin, and William P. Kustas. "A climatological study of evapotranspiration and moisture stress across the continental United States based on thermal remote sensing: 2. Surface moisture climatology." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 112, no. D11 (2007).
See more visualizations using this data setAnomaly in Gross Primary Production, August 2021
Anomaly in Gross Primary Production based on 20-year record from LIS-model run
See more visualizations using this data setGPM Rainfall anomaly for Aug 2021
Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) V06 Precipitation downscaled to 1 km within LIS model
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