Boundary conditions for ED2 simulations for the Brazilian Amazon, initialised with airborne laser scanning

<p>This data set contains a series of files to run the ED2 model for the configuration described in the following manuscript:</p> <p>Longo, M., M. Keller, L. M. Kueppers, K. Bowman, O. Csillik, A. Ferraz, P. R. Moorcroft, J. P. Ometto, B. S. Soares-Filho, X. Xu, M. L. F. de Assis, E. B. Görgens, E. J. L. Larson, J. F. Needham, E. M. Ordway, F. R. S. Pereira, E. Rangel Pinagé, L. Sato, L. Xu and S. Saatchi. Degradation and deforestation increase the sensitivity of the Amazon Forest to climate extremes. <em>In review</em>.</p> <p>The compressed files contains a folder structure containing the following sub-folders:</p> <ul> <li><strong>thermal_sums</strong>. This has information for cold-deciduous phenology. Not applied in tropical forest simulations, but the files are required</li> <li><strong>soil_data</strong>. These contain data sets used to describe texture (<code>texture</code>), depth to bedrock (<code>depth</code>), colour (<code>colour</code>) and a legacy data set <code>temp+moist</code> that is not used by ED2.</li> <li><strong>veget_data</strong>. This data set  used to define the land/sea mask in fully coupled ED2-BRAMS simulations. These are not used by ED2 in the analysis presented in the paper, they are provided here for completeness only.</li> <li><strong>lcluc_scenarios</strong>. This data set provides the transition matrices for the land cover and land use change scenario in the spin up of the <em>Degradation</em> simulation described in the manuscript.</li> <li><strong>met_driver</strong>. This data set provides the meteorological drivers for the simulations. Important. For using it, you must manually edit the paths in file <code>WFDE5_SOUTHAM_CHIRPS_HEADER</code>, located in <code>met_driver/WFDE5/WFDE5_SOUTHAM_CHIRPS</code></li> </ul>