ABSOLUT v.1.0 Input data for an example application on the districts of Germany

These are data for running the ABSOLUT v.1.0 R programs published separately on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4468609 Details about the ABSOLUT model and an example application with these data are described in a model description paper submitted to Geoscientific Model Development. On 15 March 2021 a preprint has been released: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-21 The data published here consist of: <strong>absolutcontrol.dat</strong> – text file (UTF-8) with case-specific settings for program execution, may be edited by the user <strong>crop-areas.csv</strong> – CSV table of crop areas in hectares for different crops in German administrative areas. Modified from data originally provided by the statistical offices of Germany (© Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Deutschland, 2020) and re-distributed here in this modified form also under the terms of the Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0, see https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 <strong>districtweather.zip</strong> – zipped directory DistrictWeather, containing 401 ASCII DAT files with monthly weather variables, one per district. These have been generated using rasterized weather data from the German meteorological service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD), an official digital map of administrative boundaries provided by the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, and CLC-2012 land use data provided by Copernicus. <strong>yield-indat.csv </strong>– CSV table of crop yields in dt/ha for different crops in German administrative areas, annual values for the years 1999–2019. Modified from data originally provided by the statistical offices of Germany (© Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Deutschland, 2020) and re-distributed here in this modified form also under the terms of the Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0, see https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0