Microclimatic Temperature and Vegetation Structure in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Citation:
Stickley, Samuel; Fraterrigo, Jennifer (2021): Microclimatic Temperature and Vegetation Structure in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-0897344_V1
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Related Article Stickley, S.F., Fraterrigo, J.M. Understory vegetation contributes to microclimatic buffering of near-surface temperatures in temperate deciduous forests. Landscape Ecol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01195-w
Dataset Description

This dataset consists of microclimatic temperature and vegetation structure maps at a 3-meter spatial resolution across the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Included are raster models for sub-canopy, near-surface, minimum and maximum temperature averaged across the study period, season, and month during the growing season months of March through November from 2006-2010. Also available are the topographic and vegetation inputs developed for the microclimate models, including LiDAR-derived vegetation height, LiDAR-derived vegetation structure within four height strata, solar insolation, distance-to-stream, and topographic convergence index (TCI).

Subject Physical Sciences
Keywords microclimate buffering; forest vegetation structure; temperature; Appalachian Mountains; climate downscaling; understory; LiDAR
License CC0
Funder U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) - Grant: 1339944
Corresponding Creator Samuel Stickley
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Version DOI Comment Publication Date
1 10.13012/B2IDB-0897344_V1 2021-02-10
LiDAR_Derived_Vegetation_Structure_Data.zip 3.05 GB File
Microclimate_Raster_Data.zip 25.2 GB File
Readme_Metadata_LiDAR_Derived_Vegetation_Structure_Data.txt 4.71 KB File
Readme_Metadata_Microclimate_Raster_Data.txt 3.47 KB File
Readme_Metadata_Topographic_Data.txt 3.63 KB File
Topographic_Data.zip 48.2 GB File

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