ACITES: Land cover data for the Olson and Global Land Cover Facility data sets

Model grid cell areas and land cover data for the Olson and Global Land Cover Facility. Data are regridded to a consistent 3 x 3 degree resolution and saved in NetCDF format.

The Olson land cover dataset was developed from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) composites covering 1992-1993.

The Global Land Cover Facility dataset was developed from monthly satellite sensor data of NDVI values for 1987.

Date (Publication): 2018-10-16T10:24:39

Date (Creation): 2018-10-16T10:24:39

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b117e4bd7f754d22a65fc823694fa388

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b117e4bd7f754d22a65fc823694fa388

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Wild, Oliver	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Evans, Mathew John	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Stevenson, David	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Evans, Mathew John	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Stevenson, David	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Wild, Oliver	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

ACITES
Atmospheric Chemistry
Land Cover

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 1993-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
netCDF

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b117e4bd7f754d22a65fc823694fa388	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/acites/data/land_surface_data	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/geos/	Olson land cover data set

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.landcover.org/	Global land cover facility data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/15/6419/2015/acp-15-6419-2015.html	An evaluation of ozone dry deposition in global scale chemistry climate models

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FK001272%2F1	ACITES Webpage

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Land cover data regridded to the same resolution

as the HTAP model results, approximately 3 x 3 degrees.

1. The data is in NetCDF format

2. The area for each 3 x 3 degree grid cell is in area3x3.nc

3. The land cover data for the Olson and Global Land Cover Facility

data sets are in: lc_olson_3x3.nc and lc_umd_3x3.nc

4. The original Olson land cover data set was obtained from:

http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/geos/

5. The original Global Land Cover Facility data set was obtained from:

http://www.landcover.org/

6. See Hardacre et al., Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 6419-6436, 2015,

doi:10.5194/acp-15-6419-2015 for further details on the data

sets used in this study.

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Metadata language: English

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Parent identifier: Atmospheric Chemistry In The Earth System (ACITES)
43fdd19d25b44ec2a9176288d1085ef0

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-08T03:17:34

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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