Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-219-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-219-2018
30 Jan 2018
 | 30 Jan 2018

Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015)

Wei Li, Natasha MacBean, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Defourny, Céline Lamarche, Sophie Bontemps, Richard A. Houghton, and Shushi Peng

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Derivation of plant functional type (PFT) maps from the ESA CCI Land Cover product, version 1 Wei Li, Natasha MacBean, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Defourny, Céline Lamarche, Sophie Bontemps, Richard Houghton, and Shushi Peng https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.834229

Derivation of plant functional type (PFT) maps from the ESA CCI Land Cover product, version 2 Wei Li, Natasha MacBean, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Defourny, Céline Lamarche, Sophie Bontemps, Richard Houghton, and Shushi Peng https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1048163

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Short summary
We evaluated the land cover changes based on plant functional types (PFTs) derived from the newly released annual ESA land cover maps. We addressed the geographical distributions and temporal trends of the translated PFT maps and compared with other datasets commonly used by the land surface model community. Different choices of these datasets for the applications in land surface models are proposed depending on the research purposes.