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Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-2265-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-2265-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
Research article
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20 Jun 2023
Research article |  | 20 Jun 2023

Mapping of ESA's Climate Change Initiative land cover data to plant functional types for use in the CLASSIC land model

Libo Wang, Vivek K. Arora, Paul Bartlett, Ed Chan, and Salvatore R. Curasi

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Plant functional types (PFTs) are groups of plant species used to represent vegetation distribution in land surface models. There are large uncertainties associated with existing methods for mapping land cover datasets to PFTs. This study demonstrates how fine-resolution tree cover fraction and land cover datasets can be used to inform the PFT mapping process and reduce the uncertainties. The proposed largely objective method makes it easier to implement new land cover products in models.
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