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LBA-ECO LC-07 Monthly Mean Flooded Wetlands Habitat, Central Amazon Basin: 1979-1996

Creator: ORNL_CLOUD
Keywords: Land Use Classes,Floods,Inundation,Wetlands

LC07_Monthly_Inundated_Areas_1049

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1049

Citation

Center/Project

Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

CSV

Dataset Size

6.088 KB

Spatial Extent

N: 0 S: -8 E: -54 W: -72

Temporal Extent

1979-01-01 to 1996-06-30

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Description

This data set reports monthly mean inundation areas (square kilometers) for four cover classes of Central Amazon wetlands habitat: Open water (OW), river channel (RC) class, macrophyte (MA) class, and a flooded forest (FF) class, which also incorporates a flooded shrub class. The full study area was a 1.77 million km2 quadrant covering the Central Amazon Basin. Inundation was also calculated from three subsets of this area: (1) covering only the Amazon/Solimoes River mainstem and (2) the Eastern and (3) the Western halves of this mainstem area. There is one comma-delimited ASCII data file in this data set.

Product Summary

Platforms

JERS-1 ,

Nimbus-7

Instruments

SAR ,

SMMR

Spatial Extent

N: 0 S: -8 E: -54 W: -72

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

1979-01-01 to 1996-06-30

Data Partner

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)

Concept ID

C2779737265-ORNL_CLOUD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

Processing Level

Published

2011-12-15

Updated

2023-10-03

Science Keywords

Land Use Classes ,

Floods ,

Inundation ,

Wetlands

Citation

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Melack, J. M., Hess, L. L., Gastil-Buhl, M., Forsberg, B. R., Hamilton, S. K., Lima, I. B. T., & Novo, E. M. L. M. (2011). LBA-ECO LC-07 Monthly Mean Flooded Wetlands Habitat, Central Amazon Basin: 1979-1996 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1049 Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

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Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic
Aquatic carbon fluxes dampen the overall variation of net ecosystem productivity in the Amazon basin: An analysis of the interannual variability in the boundless carbon cycle	2019	Hastie, Adam, Lauerwald, Ronny, Ciais, Philippe, Regnier, Pierre	Air Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Discharge/Flow, Dissolved Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen Compounds, Wetlands, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Inundation, Land Use Classes, Floods, Wetlands
Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget	2017	Pangala, Sunitha R., Enrich-Prast, Alex, Basso, Luana S., Peixoto, Roberta Bittencourt, Bastviken, David, Hornibrook, Edward R. C., Gatti, Luciana V., Marotta, Humberto, Calazans, Luana Silva Braucks, Sakuragui, Cassia Monica, Bastos, Wanderley Rodrigues, Malm, Olaf, Gloor, Emanuel, Miller, John Bharat, Gauci, Vincent	Land Use Classes, Floods, Inundation, Wetlands
The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 2. Influence on seasonal soil moisture and evapotranspiration	2012	MiguezMacho, Gonzalo, Fan, Ying	Land Use Classes, Floods, Inundation, Wetlands