Just for stocking these pieces of masterwork anywhere… AI Boxes file is the AI file.
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February 19th, 2007Cultivation Intensity
January 12th, 2007
Difficult to find any raster data set about “Land Use Intensity” or “Agricultural Intensity”. It seems the only existing one is Matthews Cultivation Intensity data set from 1984.
The Matthews Vegetation data set comes from a global map of vegetation types, which was compiled from up to 100 existing map sources at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), Columbia University, in New York. It shows the predominant vegetation type (one out of 32 classes) within each one degree-square latitude/longitude grid cell. Matthews Cultivation Intensity data set is based on existing maps of vegetation and satellite imagery, and it shows the percentage of each one-degree square latitude/longitude grid cell that is under cultivation, versus the percentage of natural vegetation, including five classes.
Let me know if you are interested in it.
Coastal Water and Coastline
January 10th, 2007
Ok, the problem with the gaps between the coastline and the coastal waters has been solved. Here is the shapefile which fits smoothly with the country template or the coastline file.
Intake Fraction, Effect Factor & Damage Factor
January 9th, 2007
Total Animal Density
January 8th, 2007
GEBCO – Bathymetry
January 1st, 2007
Gebco – General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans – offers a finer resolution of the bathymetry as the Etopo2 at 1-minute. Here is the GRID-download.
Source: GEBCO/NASA
Date: 2003
Resolution: 1 minute
Differences in Continental Shelf
December 29th, 2006
I have found, and finally managed to extract, data from a different source for the calculation of the Continental Shelf. It’s much more accurate – not only in terms of resolution but also in terms of exactness. Have a closer look by clicking on this image. The green is the “old” shelf, the blue, dotted, slightly transparent one is the “new” shelf. I guess that for the model it’s not of utmost importance to be that exact…. But let me know!
Mean Depth of Coastal Waters
December 28th, 2006
Here is the table which shows the mean (as well as other statistical parameters) depth for the Coastal Water Zones.
Zonal Breakdown with Area
December 27th, 2006
Here is the Zonal Breakdown Shapefile in Mollweide Projection (“equal area”), with a field for the area (in km2 and m2). Version as of 27-12-2006.
