The climate module provides information about the present climate classes in the different cells (as shares of the total cell). This information is used by other modules to choose climate class dependent factors such as growth parameters correctly (e.g. used in 35_natveg).
| Description | Unit | |
|---|---|---|
| pm_climate_class (j, clcl) |
Koeppen-Geiger climate classification on the simulation cluster level | \(1\) |
In this realization climate classification information remains static over the whole simulation based on data for 1976-2000 taken from http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/shifts.htm (Rubel and Kottek (2010)).
sets
clcl climate classification types
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Af "Tropical rainforest climate"
Am "Tropical monsoon climate"
As "Tropical dry savanna climate"
Aw "Tropical savanna, wet"
BSh "Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate"
BSk "Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate"
BWh "Hot deserts climate"
BWk "Cold desert climate"
Cfa "Humid subtropical climate"
Cfb "Temperate oceanic climate"
Cfc "Subpolar oceanic climate"
Csa "Hot-summer Mediterranean climate"
Csb "Warm-summer Mediterranean climate"
Csc "Cool-summer Mediterranean climate"
Cwa "Monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate"
Cwb "Dry-winter subtropical highland climate"
Cwc "Dry-winter subpolar oceanic climate"
Dfa "Hot-summer humid continental climate"
Dfb "Warm-summer humid continental climate"
Dfc "Subarctic climate"
Dfd "Extremely cold subarctic climate"
Dsa "Hot, dry-summer continental climate"
Dsb "Warm, dry-summer continental climate"
Dsc "Dry-summer subarctic climate"
Dsd "snow summer dry extremely continental"
Dwa "Monsoon-influenced hot-summer humid continental climate"
Dwb "Monsoon-influenced warm-summer humid continental climate"
Dwc "Monsoon-influenced subarctic climate"
Dwd "Monsoon-influenced extremely cold subarctic climate"
EF "Ice cap climate"
ET "Tundra"
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;Limitations Temporal variations in climate classification are not considered.
| description | |
|---|---|
| clcl | climate classification types |
| j | number of LPJ cells |
Jan Philipp Dietrich
14_yields, 52_carbon, 58_peatland, 59_som
Rubel, Franz, and Markus Kottek. 2010. “Observed and Projected Climate Shifts 1901-2100 Depicted by World Maps of the Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification.” Meteorologische Zeitschrift, April, 135–41. https://doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0430.