PalEON Regional Ecosystem Drivers for Northeastern U.S. 850-2010

North-central and Northeastern U.S. environmental and meteorological drivers at 0.5-degree resolution from 850 to 2010 CE. The dataset from the PalEON Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (PEMIP) includes biome type, plant functional type, CO2 concentrations, land use change, nitrogen, soil data, and seven key meteorological variables. It supports high-resolution terrestrial ecosystem model simulations to study forest responses to past climatic variability.

Use Cases

• Calibrating terrestrial ecosystem models using harmonized drivers like dominant biome type and plant functional type.
• Analyzing long-term climate-forest interactions with meteorological variables such as air temperature, precipitation, and radiation.
• Studying anthropogenic impacts via land use-land cover change and atmospheric CO2 concentration columns over a millennium.
• Assessing soil and nitrogen concentration effects on historical ecosystem productivity.

Strengths

• Covers a 1,160-year time range from 850 to 2010 CE, enabling millennial-scale analysis.
• Provides harmonized regional drivers at a consistent 0.5-degree spatial resolution.
• Includes 14 distinct environmental and meteorological variables, supporting detailed model forcing.
• Developed under a coordinated NASA project (PEMIP) for model intercomparison.

Limitations

• Exact row count, file size, and specific column names are not provided by any source.
• Conflicting 'last updated' dates: Data.gov lists 2026-03 12, while NASA Earthdata lists 2010-12-31.

Provenance

Source

PalEON Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (PEMIP), National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Harmonized regional drivers derived for model simulations.

Time Range

0850-01-01 to 2010-12-31

Freshness

2026-03-12 23:06:15.375675

Geography

North-central and Northeastern United States at 0.5-degree resolution