Land_history: Historical land use data

Description Usage Format Source

Description

This dataset contains harvested area for crops by GCAM commodity from 1961-2020 and land area for land cover types from 1970-2010 by GCAM region

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 24313 rows and 4 variables:

region

GCAM region name.

GCAM_commodity

GCAM commodity name.

year

Year of the observation.

area

Land area for that commodity for the region and year.

Source

Cropland area is from FAO, aggregated to GCAM commodity and region. Non-crop area is from SAGE, processed by Moirai and then aggregated to GCAM type and region.


JGCRI/gcamland documentation built on Oct. 6, 2020, 5:30 p.m.