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Wilson, Henderson-Sellers' 1-Degree Global Vegetation and Soils

Soil and vegetation type data from Henderson-Sellers on a global 1 degree grid. Also called the "Wilson tape."


PERIODS:
VARIABLES:
Soil ClassificationVegetation Species
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.5S Northernmost=89.5N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: U-LIVERPOOL/GEO
Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK
PUBLICATIONS: Wilson, M.F., and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1985: A global archive of land cover and soils data for use in general circulation climate models. J. Clim., 5, 119-143.

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds767.0."
VOLUME: 1.37 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
RELATED DATASETS: ds770.0 - Staub and Rosenweig's GISS Soil and Surface Slope, 1-Degree

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