MAgPIE - An Open Source land-use modeling framework

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Urban Land (34_urban)

Description

The urban land module is one of the land modules in MAgPIE (see also the other land modules: 30_crop, 31_past, 32_forestry, 35_natveg). It describes urban settlement areas and estimates their corresponding carbon content.

Interfaces

Interfaces to other modules

Input

module inputs (A: static)
  Description Unit A
pcm_land
(j, land)
Land area in previous time step \(10^6 ha\) x
vm_carbon_stock
(j, land, c_pools)
Carbon stock in vegetation soil and litter for different land types \(10^6 tC\) x
vm_land
(j, land)
Land area of the different land types \(10^6 ha\) x

Output

Realizations

(A) static

In the static realization, urban land remains static over time with the spatial distribution of 1995 from the LUH2 data set (Hurtt et al. 2018). Carbon stocks are fixed to zero because information on urban land carbon density is missing.

Limitations Urban land is static over time and corresponding carbon stocks are assumed zero

Definitions

Objects

Sets

sets in use
  description
c_pools Carbon pools
j number of LPJ cells
land Land pools

Authors

Jan Philipp Dietrich, Florian Humpenöder

See Also

10_land, 52_carbon

References

Hurtt, George C, Louise P Chini, Ritvik Sahajpal, Steve E Frolking, Benjamin Bodirsky, Katherine V Calvin, Jonathan C Doelman, et al. 2018. “LUH2: Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for the Period 850-2100.” AGUFM 2018: GC13A–01.