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. 2020 Jan 17;10:1344. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01344

Table 4.

Databases for spatially explicit abiotic ecological data for use in community modeling.

Database Data Synopsis References Data access
Atmospheric Infra-Red Sounder (AIRS) Greenhouse gases concentration in troposphere (CO2, CO, CH4, O3); etc. Provides atmospheric chemical composition measurements by decomposing the infrared radiation in 2378 bands AIRS Science team and Texeira, 2008; Morgan et al., 2004; Maddy et al., 2008; Xiong et al., 2008; Engelen et al., 2009; Lin et al., 2013 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Precipitation rate and rainfall rate. Was operational from 1997-12-01 to 2015-03-31 Wilheit et al., 1991 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov
GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) Precipitation Global observations of rain and snow. Operational from 2014-03-01 until the present Hong et al., 2004; Huffman et al., 2007; Stocker et al., 2018 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov
MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Land surface temperature; Vegetation idexes (NDVI, EVI, LAI); Primary production; Evapotransiration; Ocean chlorophyll; etc… Produces a huge list of high precision environmental products, with high temporal resolution, that are validated with field data Cohen et al., 2003; Didan, 2015; Friedl and Sulla-Menashe, 2015; Giglio et al., 2015; Running et al., 2017; Savtchenko et al., 2004; Turner et al., 2006; Wan et al., 2015 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov
SOILGRID Bulk density; Soil granulometry; Soil classification; Cation exchange capacity; Soil organic content; pH; etc… Models a set of soil's physical and chemical properties through the combination of soil samples data with a large set of soil covariates using machine learning techniques Hengl et al., 2017 https://soilgrids.org
GLDAS—Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 Rain precipitation rate; Evapotranspiration; Root zone soil moisture; Soil moisture (in various depths); Soil temperature(in various depths); etc. Models land surface states and fluxes using optimal fields. Includes 40 climatic parameters with temporal coverage from 1979-01-01 to present with high temporal resolution Rodell et al., 2004; Rodell et al., 2009; Kumar et al., 2006; Peters-Lidard et al., 2007 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov
WorldClim Version2 Annual Mean Temperature; Mean Diurnal Range; Temperature Seasonality; Temperature Annual Range; Annual Precipitation; Precipitation Seasonality; etc… Set of 19 bioclimatic variables averaging of climatic parameters from 1970 to 2000, modeled through general circulation models (GCM). Fick and Hijmans, 2017 http://worldclim.org/version2
WorldClim 1.4 downscaled (CMIP5) data The same as WorldClim Version2 projected to the future Future projections for the same WorldClim 19 bioclimatic variables for two periods, 2050 (average for 2041–2060) and 2070 (average for 2061–2080), based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Stocker, 2014 https://www.worldclim.org/cmip5v1