Global Climatologies of Vegetation Aerodynamic Roughness for Momentum: a fusion of MODIS and ICESat-2 Observations (static data fields)

This dataset includes static z0s and d0s climatology fields for 2003-2019 for the global land surface (90N - 60S) at 500-m spatial resolution as described in Borak et al. (2023) as well as the long-term land cover map used to derive per-class information. The z0 and d0 fields are formatted as 36000 lines by 86400 pixels of 32-bit floating-point binary data, with the first observation corresponding to the upper-left corner of the field. Projection is sinusoidal, and conforms to the same parameters as Collection 6+ 500-m MODIS products (radius of sphere = 6371007.181 m). Units of z0 and d0 are meters, with 255.0 referring to no-data. The land cover field has identical consists of the long-term MODIS land cover classification (IGBP legend). Its spatial characteristics are identical to the roughness fields, but data are formatted as unsigned characters (i.e., 8-bit unsigned integers) with no-data and water set to 255. All files are compressed with gzip and packaged with tar.