Global Forest Resources Assessment

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
GIScCE, South Dakota State University


e123n60


Location


60° N; 123° E
Europe; Russian Federation (Sakha Rep.)
Elevation of the tile center point: 355 m
Water consist 0.0% of block area



Biome/ecoregion


Boreal Forests/Taiga biome
East Siberian taiga ecoregion



External information resources


The Degree Confluence Project information



Tile outlines


 Tile outline 10x10km and 20x20km [KMZ]
 Tile outline 10x10km [SHP]
 Tile outline 20x20km [SHP]


Climate and Phenology


Köppen Climate Classification System


Continental, humid, cool summer


Temperature/Precipitation


Max temperature of warmest month (C°)

23

Min temperature of coldest month (C°)

-38

Annual precipitation (mm)

385


Phenology data

(MODIS-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)


Maximum annual NDVI: 0.77

           Monthly NDVI (percent of maximum annual NDVI)




Land Cover Data


MODIS Tree canopy cover



                  Tree canopy cover

         0%

100%


      Tree canopy cover within the tile

mean

50.4%

median

50%

maximum

73%



Bare ground percent within the tile: 1.7%





 Download MODIS-derived tree canopy cover
    and SRTM water mask [GeoTIF]