Seasonally Varying Vegetation Impacts on Surface Fluxes (VegFlux)

VegFlux introduced observationally based, seasonal variations in vegetation and bare-soil fractions into the Met Office Unified Model (UM) and quantify impacts on dust emission and moist processes, allowing improvement of climate projections for Africa.

In the zipped folder (VegetFlux_data.tar.gz) uploaded here, the data is grouped into five folders containing each one of the following parameters: temperature (tewnt15m), precipitation (tewnpre), latent heat (tewnlhf), sensible heat (tewnshf) and vegetation fraction (vegfrac). In each folder, we have two types of simulation, one whose file names begin with tewnfa and the other whose file names begin with tewnha. The one begining with tewnfa is the simulation using fix vegetation fraction in the unified model (UM) and the tewnha using varying vegetation fraction. The timestep is 12 hours meaning two measures per day (00h and 12h) during five months (may to september).