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MODIS lai #1

Open nocollier opened 4 years ago

nocollier commented 4 years ago

Reported at AGU 2019 by Christian Seiler, the MODIS lai we have encoded is a single year replicated to extend from 2000 thru 2005. I am given to understand that our original intent was to have this be more of a representative year.

If this is still the desired intent, the dataset should be formatted as a climatology. ILAMB can understand annual cycles and compute an annual cycle across a span of years indicated in the file.

However, is there a good reason we shouldn't just compare MODIS lai at the years encoded in the data?

nocollier commented 4 years ago

According to Christian, he used the MODIS lai available at obs4mips:

http://esgf.nccs.nasa.gov/thredds/fileServer/obs4MIPs/NASA-GSFC/MODIS/obs4MIPs/observations/land/lai/mon/grid/NASA-GSFC/MODIS/V5/lai_MODIS-level_3_v5_200002-200912.nc