Realistic afforestation scenarios in Great Britain at a 1 km scale to run with the land surface model JULES

Afforestation scenarios created in the work of Buechel et al. (XXXX) which cover Great Britain at a 1 km spatial resolution and attempt to represent potential realistic broadleaf afforestation. The datasets represent a 50% and 100% afforestation scenario. The netCDF files are designed so that may be run with the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), a community land surface model. The dataset is structured similar to the CHESS-land dataset (Martinez-De La Torre, 2018) where each grid contains information on the fractional coverage of eight different land cover types: Broadleaf woodland, needleleaf woodland, grassland, shrubland, crops, bare soil, urban areas and inland water. 

This dataset was created as part of the NERC doctoral training partnerships (grant number NE/L002612/1).

Martinez-de la Torre, A.., Blyth, E.M.. M. and Robinson, E.L.. L. (2018) ‘Water, carbon and energy fluxes simulation for Great Britain using the JULES Land Surface Model and the Climate Hydrology and Ecology research Support System meteorology dataset (1961-2015) [CHESS-land]’. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. doi:10.5285/c76096d6-45d4-4a69-a310-4c67f8dcf096.