[Article-Data] Evaluating Land Suitability: The Importance of Agroclimate Indicators Thresholds and Crop Phenology

This repository provides the code used and the data generated as part of the article Evaluating Land Suitability: The Importance of Agroclimate Indicators Thresholds and Crop Phenology. Code The code.zip folder contains the Python scripts used to conduct this study. The wheat_indicators_CLIM1.py, wheat_indicators_CLIM2.py, and wheat_indicators_ECOCLIM.py files were used to compute the climate indicators used in the Land Suitability Analysis (LSA) for the different methods. The ECOCLIM's file also includes the code to compute the phenological stages. The file wheat_suitability.py was used to run the LSA of the three methods; meanwhile, plot.py and helpers.py contain the code to create the figure for the article and helper functions, respectively. Data The data.zip folder contains the suitability data generated for the three methods. Note that the climate indicators and phenological stages data are not included, but can be easily reproduced using the provided code. The folder contains two subfolders, one for the historical period and one for the RCP8.5 scenario. Each subfolder includes five types of files: *SoilTerrain-Criteria-Suitability*: suitability of all individual soil/terrain criteria *SoilTerrain-Suitability*: aggregated suitability of soil/terrain criteria *Climate-Criteria-Indicators-Suitability*: suitability of all individual climate criteria *Climate-Suitability*: aggregated suitability of climate criteria *Suitability*: aggregated suitability of soil/terrain and climate suitability One file corresponds to one scenario (historical vs RCP8.5), one method (CLIM1, CLIM2, ECOCLIM), and one of the four climate models. The WheatLateEarly prefix is used instead of Wheat for ECOCLIM to specify the specific wheat ideotype used for the phenological modelling. The folder also contains three files that aggregate raw data and correspond to the multi-model mean and future changes of the climate criteria suitability, climate suitability, and suitability, as well as the robustness of changes for the time periods used in the article.