Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment

The Campaign

The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment is a NASA-led project, which studies the Arctic and boreal ecosystems to understand their vulnerability and resilience to environmental change. ABoVE began in the spring of 2017 and has completed 4 deployments since then. A host of aircraft, including NASA’s GIII and Dynamic Aviation’s B-200, along with instrumentation placed strategically on towers throughout the study domain helped scientists use remote sensing to track physical changes across the terrain, as well as climatological changes over time. This was done in hopes of providing a foundation for improving the analysis, and modeling capabilities needed to understand and predict ecosystem responses and societal implications. ABoVE is founded by NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program.

Additional Notes

ABoVE deployment in 2017 is sometimes referred to as the "ABoVE Airborne Campaign (ACC)" with following years supplementing the data collected in 2017. Multiple shapefile formats are available at: https://above.nasa.gov/about.html for the study region boundary

Repositories

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL)