SAFARI 2000 Soil CO2 Emissions on 0.5-Degree Grid

SAFARI 2000 Monthly and Annual CO2 Emissions from Soil provides estimated soil respiration data for southern Africa on a 0.5-degree grid cell basis. The dataset is a subset of a global model by Raich and Potter (CDIAC 1996), reformatted for the SAFARI 2000 project region. It originates from NASA and contains monthly and annual emission estimates.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional carbon budgets using gridded monthly soil CO2 flux estimates.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of soil respiration across southern Africa's 0.5-degree grid cells.
• Validating terrestrial ecosystem models against estimated annual soil emissions.
• Studying contributions of root and microbial respiration to the atmospheric carbon cycle.

Strengths

• Data provides coverage for the specific SAFARI 2000 project region in southern Africa.
• Emissions are provided on a standardized 0.5-degree latitude/longitude grid.
• Includes both monthly and annual temporal resolutions for analysis.

Limitations

• Row count, file size, and specific column names are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date: one lists 1995-12-31, another lists 2026-03-12.
• The dataset is a derived subset of a global model, not direct measurements.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); subset of global data set by Raich and Potter (CDIAC 1996).

Collection Method

Calculated estimates from a model of soil and root respiration, reformatted and subsetted to the SAFARI region.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03 12 22:17:00.596849

Geography

Southern Africa (SAFARI 2000 project region).