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    • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Climate and Land Cover

    Metadata Updated: April 24, 2025

    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.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://doi.org/10.7927/H47P8WB9
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CF9N1K
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4V9860B
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4G44N76
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4KW5CZ6

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
    Publisher SEDAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1000000580-SEDAC
    Data First Published 2005-05-29
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
    Category MA, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 1e305e5d-7d62-440f-8621-f264da961032
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7927/H4QJ7F8M
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.7927/H47P8WB9, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CF9N1K, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4V9860B, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4G44N76, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4KW5CZ6
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5ea0fb307634229c47654b38ea308ad47d5bc1d806f336d72730b959aae1e683
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z/2000-12-31T00:00:00Z

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