Limitations of WRF land surface models for simulating land use and land cover change in Sub-Saharan Africa and development of an improved model (CLM-AF v. 1.0)

Glotfelty, Timothy; Ramírez-Mejía, Diana; Bowden, Jared; Ghilardi, Adrian; West, J. Jason

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3215-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3215-2021

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Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Development and technical paper

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03 Jun 2021

Development and technical paper |

| 03 Jun 2021

Limitations of WRF land surface models for simulating land use and land cover change in Sub-Saharan Africa and development of an improved model (CLM-AF v. 1.0)

Timothy Glotfelty, Diana Ramírez-Mejía, Jared Bowden, Adrian Ghilardi, and J. Jason West

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3215-2021-supplement

Data sets

Africa-Bioclimate Regions Timothy Glotfelty, Diana Ramírez-Mejía, Jared Bowden, Adrian Ghilardi, and J. Jason West https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/WHNILT

MODIS DinamicaEGO Land Use Data Timothy Glotfelty, Diana Ramírez-Mejía, Jared Bowden, Adrian Ghilardi, and J. Jason West https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/BEA55Z

Overview Information T. Glotfelty, D. Ramirez, J. Bowden, A. Ghilardi, and J. J. West https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/MQ8KNS

CRU TS4.01: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) version 4.01 of high-resolution gridded data of month-by-month variation in climate (Jan. 1901-Dec. 2016) I. C. Harris and P. D. Jones https://doi.org/10.5285/58a8802721c94c66ae45c3baa4d814d0

MODIS Atmosphere L3 Monthly Product. NASA MODIS Adaptive Processing System S. Platnick https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD08_M3.061

CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Surface Monthly means data in netCDF NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/TERRA+AQUA/CERES/EBAF-SURFACE_L3B004.0

CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) TOA Monthly means data in netCDF Edition4.0 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/TERRA+AQUA/CERES/EBAF-TOA_L3B004.0

TRMM (TMPA) Rainfall Estimate L3 3 hour 0.25 degree x 0.25 degree V7, Greenbelt, MD Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) https://doi.org/10.5067/TRMM/TMPA/3H/7

Model code and software

CLM-AF v 1.0 Code Timothy Glotfelty, Diana Ramírez-Mejía, Jared Bowden, Adrian Ghilardi, and J. Jason West https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/DZ7XS3

CLM-AF Updated Radiation Codes Timothy Glotfelty, Diana Ramírez-Mejía, Jared Bowden, Adrian Ghilardi, and J. Jason West https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/W2LWJV

Default WRF-CLM LAI Output Code Timothy Glotfelty, Diana Ramírez-Mejía, Jared Bowden, Adrian Ghilardi, and J. Jason West https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/JGIQOE

Short summary

Land use and land cover change is a major contributor to climate change in Africa. Here we...