Comments on: Global seasonality

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:33:15 +0000

Thanks Ranjeet! Great ideas. You’re probably correct on all accounts. Do you mean shadow from the trees. If so, wouldn’t that have the same effect on energy balance? I guess maybe it’s less dramatic on the ground than from that angle though?

By: ranjeet

ranjeet — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:09:15 +0000

Hi Anthony, nice job. I love what MODIS did for phenology.

however, 3 & 10 be owing to
3. shadow owing to extreme look angles on MODIS in the high latitudes? but like the idea of low albedo due to conifers
5. the Cerrado drying out?
10.the cropping cycle?

Ranjeet, who lives down the hall

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:38:22 +0000

Cool Char, I saw one of the globe projection systems at the Tech Museum in San Jose, but not with these sorts of satellite data. Sounds sweet. Good job teaching global ecology to the masses!

By: Charlie Lawton

Charlie Lawton — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:35:49 +0000

I’ve been doing some volunteering for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and I prepared some training materials for a spherical projection of these data which we project onto a sphere. It’s completely awesome, and a great teaching tool – a lot of the observations you make here are in my training docs.

The one that always bakes people’s noodles is the fact that Brazil is not just Amazon. There’s a whole lot of savanna, shrubland, and veldt-like vegetation, especially in the south and northeast. It IS at the same latitude as South Africa, after all…