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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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w158n65

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Location


65° N; 158° W
Americas; United States of America (Alaska)
Elevation of the tile center point: 245 m
Water consist 0.0% of block area



Biome/ecoregion


Boreal Forests/Taiga biome
Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland 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°)

17

Min temperature of coldest month (C°)

-28

Annual precipitation (mm)

343


Phenology data

(MODIS-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)


Maximum annual NDVI: 0.80

           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

33.2%

median

37%

maximum

69%



Bare ground percent within the tile: 2.1%





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


 


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