DATA

Global Actual Evapotranspiration

- 0.5 deg gridded global, monthly evapotranspiration ascii files 1986-1995

- Cite: Fisher, J.B., Tu, K., Baldocchi, D.D., 2008.  Global estimates of the land-atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites.  Remote Sensing of Environment 112: 901-919.

Global Potential Evapotranspiration

- 0.5 deg gridded global, monthly potential evapotranspiration ascii files 1986-1995 – Priestley Taylor

- 0.5 deg gridded global, monthly potential evapotranspiration ascii files 1986-1995 – Penman-Monteith

- 0.5 deg gridded global, monthly potential evapotranspiration ascii files 1986-1995 – Thornthwaite

- Cite: Fisher, J.B., Whittaker, R., Malhi, Y., 2011. ET Come Home: Potential evapotranspiration in geographical ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 1-18.

Global Canopy Height

- 1 km² gridded global vegetation canopy height for trees > 5 m from ICESat/GLAS (also see: http://lidarradar.jpl.nasa.gov/)

- Cite: Simard, M., Pinto, N., Fisher, J.B., Baccini, A., 2011. Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne LiDAR. Journal of Geophysical Research–Biogeosciences 116: G04021, doi:10.1029/2011JG001708.

Sap Flow

- Quercus douglasii (Blue Oak trees) – Tonzi Ranch, 30-minutes, 2005 (6.3MB, Excel)

- Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine trees) – Blodgett Forest, 30-minutes, 2005 (7.7MB, Excel)

- Arctostaphylos manzanita and Ceanothus cordulatus (Manzanita and Ceanothus shrubs) – Blodgett forest, 30-minutes, 2005 (7.7MB, Excel)

- Note: data provided are raw thermocouple temperatures that can be cleaned, gap-filled, and converted to sap velocity/flow according to the user.

- Cite: Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D.D., Misson, L., Dawson, T., Goldstein, A.H., 2007.  What the towers dont see at night: Nocturnal sap flow in trees and shrubs at two AmeriFlux sites in California.  Tree Physiology 27(4): 597-610.

MODELS

Evapotranspiration (PT-JPL)

- PT-JPL: MATLAB for spatial arrays (e.g., remote sensing)

- PT-JPL: Excel for point values (e.g., flux tower)

- Cite: Fisher, J.B., Tu, K., Baldocchi, D.D., 2008.  Global estimates of the land-atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites.  Remote Sensing of Environment 112: 901-919.

Plant Nitrogen Uptake (FUN: Fixation & Uptake of Nitrogen)

- FUN: Matlab

- FUN: Fortran

- FUN: Excel

- Cite: Fisher, J.B., Sitch, S., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Huntingford, C., Tan, S.-Y., 2010. Carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: A mechanistic, globally applicable model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation, and fixation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 24: GB1014, doi:10.1029/2009GB003621.