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NPS | 2018
Snow cover strongly influences the energy budget and regional climate of higher latitudes and elevations. The seasonal freeze-thaw (FT) transition is coupled with snowpack melt dynamics and impacts…
NPS | 2018
The Everglades National Park (EVER) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY) vegetation mapping project is a component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). The CERP is a…
NPS | 2018
The NPS contracted with ABR, Inc., to develop a map that depicts the day of the year that a Landsat 30-meter pixel becomes snow free during the spring from 1999 to 2015. Annual coverage is…
NPS | 2018
The NPS is using the entire Landsat 30-meter resolution data archive (1980s to the present) to study changes in the total surface area of lakes and ponds in the national parks of northern and central…
NPS | 2018
Snowmelt and rain-on-snow (ROS) events enhance the liquid water content of a snowpack, which affects snow properties such as depth, density, grain size, and extent. These changes are associated with…
NPS | 2018
There are 88 NPS park units designated as Ocean and Coastal Parks that encompass 11,000 shoreline miles and 2.5 million acres of ocean and Great Lakes waters. Due to the large and complex…
BOEM | 2018
BOEM is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center to assess the probability of using satellite…
BOEM | 2018
The Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) II is the continuation of a study to assess the abundance, distribution, ecology, and behavior of marine mammals, sea turtles,…
NPS | 2014
Intermountain Region Cultural Resources Division, Intermountain Region Geographic Resources Division Second Fort at Fort Union National Monument in Watrous, New Mexico, is a massive star-shaped…
NPS | 2014
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Natural Resource Management, Flagstaff, Arizona Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, located near Flagstaff, Arizona, is composed of many unique and…
NPS | 2014
Tule Lake Unit of the WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument, Cultural Resources Program, Tulelake, California The Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument,…
NPS | 2014
National Park Service Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network NPS used Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satillite images to evaluate trends in snow cover persistence over Alaska'…