Potential biophysical effects of vegetation cover change

Changing the vegetation cover of the Earth has impacts on the biophysical properties of the surface and ultimately on the local climate. Depending on the specific type of vegetation change and on the background climate, the resulting competing biophysical processes can have a net warming or cooling effect, which can further vary both spatially and seasonally. This dataset provides such estimations of potential local changes of the surface energy balance for multiple vegetation transitions derived from satellite remote sensing products.