Articles | Volume 11, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4139-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4139-2018
Model evaluation paper
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12 Oct 2018
Model evaluation paper |  | 12 Oct 2018

Global hydro-climatic biomes identified via multitask learning

Christina Papagiannopoulou, Diego G. Miralles, Matthias Demuzere, Niko E. C. Verhoest, and Willem Waegeman

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Common global land cover and climate classifications are based on vegetation–climatic characteristics derived from observational data, ignoring the interaction between the local climate and biome. Here, we model the interplay between vegetation and local climate by discovering spatial relationships among different locations. The resulting global hydro-climatic biomes correspond to regions of coherent climate–vegetation interactions that agree well with traditional global land cover maps.