Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Climate and Land Cover
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Originator: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publication Date: 20050529
Title: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Climate and Land Cover
Edition: 1.00
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector, raster, tabular
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Publication Place: Washington, DC
Publisher: Island Press
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4QJ7F8M
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Abstract:
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Climate and Land Cover provides data and information on global gridded climatological variables, global land cover maps, and national and international protected areas. The climatological data include the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) monthly terrestrial surface temperature and precipitation grids at 0.5 degree resolution from 1901-1996, along with temperature and precipitation grids at 10-minute resolution from the CRU and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). The Global Land Cover 2000 (GLC2000) was produced by an international partnership of 30 research groups coordinated by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), which contained two levels of land cover information; detailed and regionally optimized land cover for each continent, and a less thematically detailed global land cover that harmonizes regions into one consistent product. The maps were based on daily data from the Vegetation 1 sensor on-board SPOT 4, though mapping of regions required the use of data from additional Earth observing sensors to resolve specific issues. The international and national protected areas were generated from the World Database of Protected Areas for the year 2000.
Purpose: To preserve access to the original climate and land cover data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.
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Beginning Date: 1901/01/01
Ending Date: 2000/12/31
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Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: As needed
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West Bounding Coordinate: -180.000000
East Bounding Coordinate: 180.000000
North Bounding Coordinate: 90.000000
South Bounding Coordinate: -90.000000
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Theme Keyword Thesaurus: SEDAC Theme
Theme Keyword: Climate
Theme Keyword: Land Use
Theme Keyword: Remote Sensing
Theme Keyword: Water
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Theme Keyword Thesaurus: CIESIN Indexing Vocabulary Version 2.1 (GCMD Format)
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Land Use
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Climate > Climate Factors
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Theme Keyword Thesaurus: Data Granularity
Theme Keyword: Global
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Theme Keyword Thesaurus: General
Theme Keyword: Climate
Theme Keyword: Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
Theme Keyword: Protected Areas
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Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ISO Topic
Theme Keyword: Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Theme Keyword: Imagery/Base Maps/Earth Cover
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Theme Keyword Thesaurus: GCMD Science Keywords, Version 8.6
Theme Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER
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Place Keyword: Global
Access Constraints: None
Use Constraints: Users are free to use the work for non-commercial purposes, without restriction, as long as clear attribution of the source is provided.
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Contact Organization: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
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Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: New York
Postal Code: 10964
Country: USA
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Originator: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publication Date: 20050529
Title: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Scenarios
Edition: 1.00
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: raster, vector, tabular
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Publication Place: Washington,DC
Publisher: Island Press
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H47P8WB9
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Originator: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publication Date: 20050529
Title: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Population
Edition: 1.00
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: raster
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Publication Place: Washington, DC
Publisher: Island Press
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CF9N1K
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Originator: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publication Date: 20050529
Title: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Biodiversity
Edition: 1.00
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector, raster, tabular
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Publication Place: Washington, DC
Publisher: Island Press
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4V9860B
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Originator: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publication Date: 20050529
Title: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Rapid Land Cover Change
Edition: 1.00
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector, raster
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Publication Place: Washington, DC
Publisher: Island Press
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4G44N76
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Originator: Lepers, E., E.F. Lambin, A.C.Janetos, R. DeFries, F. Achard, N. Ramankutty, and R.J. Scholes
Publication Date: 20050201
Title: A Synthesis of Information on Rapid Land-cover Change for the Period 1981- 2000
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: journal article
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Series Name: BioScience
Issue Identification: 55 (2): 115-124
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0115:ASOIOR]2.0.CO;2
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Originator: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publication Date: 20050529
Title: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Ecosystems
Edition: 1.00
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector, raster, tabular
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Publication Place: Washington, DC
Publisher: Island Press
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4KW5CZ6
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Contact Organization: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
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Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: New York
Postal Code: 10964
Country: USA
Contact Voice Telephone: +1 845-365-8920
Contact Facsimile Telephone: +1 845-365-8922
Contact Electronic Mail Address: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
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Beginning Date: 2015/05/29
Ending Date: Present
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Metadata Date: 2015/01/29
Metadata Review Date: 2022/04/15
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Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
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