A spatially-explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000-2018

We present a database of
wind disturbances in European forests (FORWIND). The data set corresponds the
data presented in the paper “A spatially-explicit database of wind disturbances
in European forests over the period 2000-2018” which has been submitted to
Earth System Science Data (https://www.earth-system-science-data.net/).
FORWIND comprises more than
80,000 spatially delineated areas in Europe that were disturbed by wind in the
period 2000-2018, and describes them in a harmonized and consistent
geographical vector format.
The FORWIND dataset contains records as polygon features in shapefile format (.shp). The geometry of a feature is stored as a shape comprising a set of vector
coordinates corresponding to the boundaries of the area of a given wind
disturbance. Records are
georeferenced in geographical coordinates, i.e. latitude and longitude,
following the WGS84 standard (EPSG:4326). Basic attributes of each disturbance
are provided in an associated
table, stored in a .dbf file and include:
* identifier
code (Id_poly)
*
date of event (EventDate)
*
storm name (StormName)
*
type of event (EventType)
*
country (Country)
*
area affected [in hectares] (Area)
*
perimeter [in meters] (Perimeter)
*
damage degree [in %] (Damage_deg)
*
acquisition method (Methods)
*
data provider (Dataprovid)
*
source (Source)

Missing data are reported as -999.

Correspondence to: Giovanni Forzieri ([e-mail])