Description

The ESA CCI land cover dataset (https://www.esa-landcover-cci.org/) is used to define vegetation maps in land surface models (LSMs). While the ESA CCI LC data cover only the recent decades (1992-2020), for LSMs it is crucial to have a much longer historical period. This web-site presents an approach developed at LSCE for the merge of the ESA CCI LC data with the LUH dataset (https://luh.umd.edu/) which is constructed for historical (850-2024) and future (2022-2100) time periods.

• section Protocol describes algorithm of the merge and data processing,
• section ESA presents different versions of the ESA CCI LC datasets (v2.0.7, v2.0.8 and v2.0.82) and comparison between them,
• section LUH presents different versions of the LUH datasets (v2-GCB2025 and v3.1.1),
• section Merge presents resulting annual vegetation maps from the merge of ESA CCI LC products with LUH datasets,
• section ORCHIDEE presents resulting annual vegetation maps constructed for the ORCHIDEE model,
• section Annex contains auxiliary information on the used datasets.