Articles | Volume 8, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2315-2015
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2315-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Development and technical paper
| 
31 Jul 2015
Development and technical paper |
| 31 Jul 2015
Plant functional type classification for earth system models: results from the European Space Agency's Land Cover Climate Change Initiative
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
N. MacBean
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
A. Hartley
Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
I. Khlystova
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
O. Arino
ESA-ESRIN, 00044, Frascati, Italy
Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
S. Bontemps
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
M. Boettcher
Brockmann-Consult GmbH, Max-Planck Str. 2, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
C. Brockmann
Brockmann-Consult GmbH, Max-Planck Str. 2, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
P. Defourny
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
S. Hagemann
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
M. Herold
Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Wageningen 6708 PB, the Netherlands
G. Kirches
Brockmann-Consult GmbH, Max-Planck Str. 2, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
C. Lamarche
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
D. Lederer
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
C. Ottlé
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
M. Peters
Brockmann-Consult GmbH, Max-Planck Str. 2, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
P. Peylin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Short summary
Land cover is an essential variable in earth system models and determines conditions driving biogeochemical, energy and water exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere. A methodology is presented for mapping plant functional types used in global vegetation models from a updated land cover classification system and open-source conversion tool, resulting from a consultative process among map producers and modelers engaged in the European Space Agency’s Land Cover Climate Change Initiative.
Land cover is an essential variable in earth system models and determines conditions driving...
