DayCent-UV grassland productivity across the midwestern and western conterminous United States.

This dataset provides information about daily simulated aboveground plant productivity (ANPP) in grasslands across the midwestern and western conterminous United States from 1984 to 2015. Annual ANPP estimates from Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) are included for comparison. File Structure: NetCDF Files: Each file contains: Day in the year Longitude and latitude of each grid cell Daily simulated ANPP (gC/m²) stored in the cropANPP variable File naming convention: daycent-cwrf_year.nc To calculate annual ANPP, sum the cropANPP values across all days within a file. CSV Files: full_all-year_ANPP_1986-2015.csv: Summarizes DayCent-UV ANPP (gC/m²) in cum_ANPP column for each grid cell, identified by grid lon lat row and col columns. full_RAP_ANPP.csv: Provides RAP's annual ANPP estimates (gBiomass/m²) for each grid cell, identified by grid and row columns, using: Sala equation (considering precipitation) in column RAP_Sala_biomass and the annual fraction of carbon allocated in shoots in column fANPP_Sala Hiu equation (considering temperature) in column RAP_Hiu_biomass and the annual fraction of carbon allocated in shoots in fANPP_Hiu A conversion factor of 2.4 is used to convert from gC to gBiomass.