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FluxSat_GPP_FPAR_1835·v2·dataset

How much carbon plants capture daily (MODIS plus FLUXNET)

Global MODIS and FLUXNET-derived Daily Gross Primary Production, V2
biosphere NASA ORNL_CLOUD Level 3 netCDF-4 classic
In plain English

What it measures. Daily estimates of gross primary production, that is, how much carbon plants pull from the air and capture through photosynthesis worldwide, with uncertainty estimates.

How it's made. Created by feeding MODIS surface reflectance from NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites into neural networks trained on ground-based carbon measurements from FLUXNET towers, gridded at 0.05 degrees.

How & where you'd use it. Helps scientists track how much carbon the world's plants take up over time, supporting carbon cycle and climate research.

What's measured

BIOSPHERE › ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS › ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS › PRIMARY PRODUCTIONBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION › FRACTION OF ABSORBED PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION (FAPAR)LAND SURFACE › SOILS › SOIL PRODUCTIVITY › GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION (GPP)LAND SURFACE › SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES › REFLECTANCE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-03-01 → 2020-08-01
  • Measured byAqua (MODIS) · MODELS (Computer) · Terra (MODIS)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • FormatsnetCDF-4 classic
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

This dataset provides global gridded daily estimates of gross primary production (GPP) and uncertainties at 0.05-degree resolution for the period 2000-03-01 to the recent past. The GPP was derived from the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on the NASA Terra and Aqua satellites using the MCD43C4v006 Nadir Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)-Adjusted Reflectances (NBAR) product as input to neural networks that were used to globally upscale GPP estimated from selected FLUXNET 2015 eddy covariance tower sites. Additional data will be added periodically.

Get the data

fluxsat_gpp_fpar_1835_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="FluxSat_GPP_FPAR_1835",
    version="2",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from ORNL_CLOUD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.