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Boxes Screenshots

ss — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:05:51 +0000

Just for stocking these pieces of masterwork anywhere… AI Boxes file is the AI file.

Cultivation Intensity

ss — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:15:40 +0000

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

ss — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:23:57 +0000

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

ss — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:09:18 +0000

Nice slide out of Shanna’s PPT presentation. Just a reminder for myself. You all know it well, but I need to look at it on a regular basis so I learn to know what you guys are talking about…

Total Animal Density

ss — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:48:46 +0000

This is the aggregated layer of total animals, summing all others like buffalos, cattle, pigs etc. up into one layer. Download here.

Source: FAO
Year: 2005
Resolution: 5?Â¢â??Ã?Â¨Â¬?

GEBCO – Bathymetry

ss — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:43:06 +0000

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

ss — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:35:54 +0000

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

ss — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:50:08 +0000

Here is the table which shows the mean (as well as other statistical parameters) depth for the Coastal Water Zones.

Zonal Breakdown with Area

ss — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:41:07 +0000

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.

Mollweide Projection

ss — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:33:57 +0000

This is the correct projection of Mollweide.