Top soil texture forcing data for the area of Germany for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model based on the Bodenubersichtskarte (BUK) at a scale 1:1000000 (BUK1000) and provided by the University of Hohenheim (UHOH)

Project: DFG Research Unit 1695 'Regional Climate Change' - The joint objective of the Project is to investigate the effects of global climate change on structure and functions of agricultural landscapes on a regional scale and to work out projections for their development until 2030 taking into consideration various possible socio-economic conditions and adaptation processes. In order to achieve these objectives, regional climate models coupled with land surface and crop models as well as with multi agent systems in a new integrated land system model have been used, and structure and parameterization of various model components are to be optimized. Field measurements and controlled experiments have been serving to improve model components and their parameterizations, and to validate the individual models and the coupled model system. more information see http://klimawandel.uni-hohenheim.de Summary: Data contain the dominating soil type in a grid cell for Germany in ~1km horizontal resolution. The data are based on the country wide soil map (Bodenubersichtskarte - BUK) at a scale of 1:1000000 (BUK1000) published in 2007 by Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover, but reclassified according to the State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) classification table of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model for NOAH and NOAH-MP Land Surface Models (LSMs). Horizontal resolution: 0.0083333333333333° Type/units: categorical/1-16 categories Missing_value: 241.0 Projection: regular latitude longitude File format: binary, readable in the WRF Preprocessing System (WPS) Data size:1.2 MB