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1 Predicting ectotherm disease vector spread - Benefits from multi-disciplinary approaches and directions forward Naturwissenschaften Stephanie Margarete THOMAS, Carl BEIERKUHNLEIN, Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, D Bayreuth, Germany Corresponding author: Stephanie Thomas, stephanie.thomas@uni-bayreuth.de Tab 3 Generic list of data platforms providing open climate, ecological and social data for model input Product Description Spatial resolution Land cover & Land use Corine Landcover European wide inventory of land cover in 44 classes 300m Envisat MERIS Globcover global land cover 300m Envisat MERIS Culture-MERIS UMD Land cover classification Land cover/land cover change global land management activities, for which a quick and updated overview of the land s state is needed global land cover classification fourteen land cover classes ( ) 17 categories of land cover following the IGBP global vegetation database: natural vegetation developed lands, mosaic lands and nonvegetated lands 300m Source Link Envisat MERIS sftp://cm2011@culturemeris.esrin.esa.int AVHRR 500m MODIS High-resolution images Panchromatic, colour merge, multispectral 10m SPOT 1
2 Vegetation Normalized difference vegetation index NDVI Enhanced vegetation index EVI Vegetative cover conversion VCC Vegetation continuous fields VCF Tree cover continuous fields Global production efficiency model dataset GloPEM Forest change Global vegetation index MGVI changes in terrestrial vegetation classify and quantify the various concentrations of vegetation Annual data on changes in global land cover by burning or by deforestation (5 years frequencies, Tropics) Vegetative cover types: woody vegetation, herbaceous vegetation, and bare ground Vegetation is represented as continuous fields of land cover, resulting in every pixel having a percentage value for tree cover Terrestrial net primary production and gross primary production at the global scale. Humid tropical deforestation in Amazon and Central Africa Fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation; measure of the amount and vigour of vegetation at the surface 250m 8km MODIS AVHRR NOAA m MODIS 250m MODIS 500m MODIS 8km AVHRR NOAA AVHRR NOAA m Landsat MERIS 2
3 Climate & Weather Worldclim Climatic research unit CRU Set of global climate layers past (downscaled), current ( ) and future (IPCC 4) conditions Temperature, precipitation, pressure & circulation indices, UK climate indices, Mediterranean climate, Alpine climate data, high-resolution gridded datasets, paleoclimate, drought indices approx Simulations km Simulations Land surface temperature Land Surface Temperature MODIS Aqua, Terra Temperature & precipitation Extreme indices ERA-Interim precipitation and minimum, maximum, and mean surface temperature for the period , daily climate observations Cloudiness, cold, compound, drought, heat, humidity, pressure, rain, snow, sunshine, temperature, wind 45 micrometeorological Parameters/Variables, hourly, daily or monthly Merra Land historical analyses of the hydrological cycle, 58 micrometeorological Parameters/Variables, hourly or daily or monthly means NCEP /CFSR 72 micrometeorological Parameters/Variables, hourly time series 25-50km various km km km ENSEMBLES ENSEMBLES ECMWF NOAA p html?_do=y 3
4 Hydrology Total precipitable water Water vapour MODIS Evapotranspiration Transpiration by vegetation and evaporation from MODIS canopy and soil surfaces Water mask Global map of surface water 250m MODIS Flood maps Daily maps of flooded areas (examples) 250m MODIS Snow cover Snow Cover 500m- MODIS (North America) Water vapour Water vapour MERIS ur/ Soil moisture Soil moisture in land surfaces km SMOS Soil Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) European Soil Database Acidification of soils in Europe Elevation & relief Landform classification Global Land Survey Digital Elevation Model GLSDEM Global Digital Elevation Model Soils and soil parameters (such as organic Carbon, ph, water storage capacity, soil depth, cation exchange capacity, total exchangeable nutrients, salinity, textural class ) Soil geographical database of Eurasia, Database of hydraulic properties acidification, PH, chemical, physical and biological soil properties relief classes based on the relief roughness (slope, exposition) 600m Observation Observation tro.htm Observation Digital elevation models elevation 90m Landsat elevation 30m ASTER gtm 4
5 Socioeconomic data Global human influence index Anthropogenic impacts on the environment Global Human Footprint Anthropogenic impacts on the environment Urban Extents Grid Small Area Estimates of Poverty and Inequality The urban extent grids distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts, settlement points, and the presence of night-time lights high spatial resolution subnational estimates of poverty and inequality subnational Urban Landsat composite images of 66 urban areas 30m ENVI Landsat U.S. Population Grids demographic data, including characteristics of age, race, ethnicity, and housing, for US metropolitan statistical areas 250m -v2/sets/browse -v2/sets/browse urban-extents
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