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Reconstruction of global land use and land cover AD 800 to 1992

This dataset contains reconstructions of land use and land cover from AD 800 to 1992 in global coverage at 30 minute resolution. After AD 1700, the data is based on Ramankutty and Foley (1999), Foley et al. (2003) and Klein Goldewijk (2001); for earlier times, land use is estimated with a country-based method that uses national population data (McEvedy and Jones, 1978) as a proxy for agricultural activity. For each year, a map is provided that contains 14 fields. Each field holds the fraction the respective vegetation type covers in the total grid cell (0-1). The vegetation types comprise three human land use types (crop, C3 pasture and C4 pasture) and 11 natural vegetation types (based on the potential vegetation map of Ramankutty and Foley, 1999). For the time period prior to AD 1700 two additional land cover scenarios are provided (scenmin and scenmax). They quantify the uncertainties associated with this approach, through technological progress in agriculture and uncertainties in population estimates.

The additional datasets combine the known uncertainties in a way to give the most extreme range for possible estimates of land use area for each year before 1700. The datasets thus do not represent consistent time series of plausible alternative scenarios, but indicate, for each year, a maximum range outside which estimates of land use area are unrealistic. See citations and references for details.

Vegetation types:

1 Tropical evergreen forest

2 Tropical deciduous forest

3 Temperate evergreen broadleaf forest

4 Temperate/boreal deciduous broadleaf forest

5 Temperate/boreal evergreen conifers

6 Temperate/boreal deciduous conifers

7 Raingreen shrubs

8 Summergreen shrubs

9 C3 natural grasses

10 C4 natural grasses

11 Tundra

12 Crop

13 C3 pasture

14 C4 pasture

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Alternate title
Reconstruction of global land use and land cover AD 800 to 1992
Date ( Creation )
2007-09-11
Identifier
None
Identifier
doi:10.1594/WDCC/RECON_LAND_COVER_800-1992 / Reconstruction of global land use and land cover AD 800 to 1992
Originator
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Prof. Martin Claussen
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/
Originator
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Christian Reick
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Other citation details
doi:10.1594/WDCC/RECON_LAND_COVER_800-1992
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Julia Pongratz
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Christian Reick
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Thomas Raddatz
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Prof. Martin Claussen
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/
Point of contact
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Julia Pongratz
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Keywords ( Theme )
  • historic land cover
Metadata language
engen
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Begin date
0800-01-01
End date
1699-12-31
Begin date
1700-01-01
End date
1992-12-31
Distribution format
  • NetCDF ( network Common Data Format )

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Units of distribution
Mb
Transfer size
43459
OnLine resource
http://doi.org/doi:10.1594/WDCC/RECON_LAND_COVER_800-1992
Hierarchy level
series Series
Attribute description
vegetation_area_fraction
Content type
modelResult modelResult
Descriptor
0-1
Attribute description
vegetation_area_fraction
Content type
modelResult modelResult
Descriptor
0-1

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
de.dkrz.wdcc.iso2158391 XML
Hierarchy level
series Series
Hierarchy level name
RECON_LAND_COVER_800-1992
Date stamp
2019-04-21T20:22:06
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115
Metadata standard version
ISO 19139 / DKRZ ISO Simple Profile V1.0
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Julia Pongratz
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Christian Reick
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Thomas Raddatz
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Author
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Prof. Martin Claussen
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/
Point of contact
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Julia Pongratz
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Originator
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Prof. Martin Claussen
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/
Originator
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie - Dr. Christian Reick
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de
Dataset URI
http://doi.org/doi:10.1594/WDCC/RECON_LAND_COVER_800-1992

Citation proposal


Dr. Julia Pongratz (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie) - Dr. Christian Reick (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie) - Dr. Thomas Raddatz (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie) - Prof. Martin Claussen (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie). Reconstruction of global land use and land cover AD 800 to 1992.
http://meta.meteo.ru/geonetwork/srv/api/records/de.dkrz.wdcc.iso2158391

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