Forest Aboveground Biomass 2001-2100 for New Mexico, USA

This dataset provides 1km resolution maps of estimated forest aboveground biomass (AGB) in the state of New Mexico between 2001-2100. This dataset was produced by a novel forest carbon monitoring and modeling system which utilizes high resolution remote sensing of contemporary tree cover and canopy height as powerful constraints within a process-based ecosystem model to reconstruct the spatial and temporal dynamics in AGB while considering impacts of spatially and temporally transient meteorology, elevated CO2 and disturbance.  Specifically, the remote sensing data used includes GEDI and ICESat-2 observations of canopy height at footprint scale, canopy cover from USGS RCMAP and ESA CGLS, and meteorology reanalysis from NASA MERRA2 and climate projection from CMIP6. The ecosystem model used is the Ecosystem Demography model (EDv3.0)  which has been developed, calibrated and evaluated at global scale (Ma et al 2022).

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This work was supported by contract from the Maryland Department of the Environment. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of NASA Carbon Monitoring System project (80NSSC21K1059) and United States Climate Alliance Grant Program for NWL Research.