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DRECP aggregated vegetation cover 2050 - MC2 simulation results RCP 8.5

DRECP aggregated vegetation cover 2050 - MC2 simulation results RCP 8.5

Oct 10, 2013 (Last modified Jun 29, 2015)

Created by Dominique Bachelet

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Description: we used CMIP5 downscaled climate futures to run the MC2 dynamic global vegetation model and simulate vegetation cover from 1895 to 2100. We aggregated vegetation types to facilitiate visualization.

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Credits: climate: CMIP5 and J. Abatzoglou; T. Sheehan fr MC2 runs; R. Nemani for NEX access

Use Constraints: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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Tags: dgvm, western usa, model, climate change, vegetation change

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Dominique Bachelet

climate change scientist with Oregon State University

Dominique received her Master’s degree in 1978 in Lille (France) and her Ph.D. in 1983 from Colorado State University with a thesis focused on biogeochemical cycles in the shortgrass prairie. In 1984 she went to U.C. Riverside as a postdoc simulating nitrogen fixing shrubs in the Sonoran desert then...