Plant functional type classification for earth system models: Results from the European Space Agency's Land Cover Climate Change Initiative

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2315-2328

  Poulter, B ^a,b   MacBean, N ^a   Hartley, A ^c   Khlystova, I ^d   Arino, O ^e   Betts, R ^c   Bontemps, S ^f   Boettcher, M ^g   Brockmann, C ^g   Defourny, P ^f   Hagemann, S ^d   Herold, M ^h   Kirches, G ^g   Lamarche, C ^f   Lederer, D ^f   Ottle C ^a   Peters, M ^g   Peylin, P ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^g GITZ   (Germany)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FOREST COVER; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84937034408     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-2315-2015     Document Type: Article

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