A hybrid 100-m global land cover dataset with Local Climate Zones for WRF

This hybrid 100-m CGLC-MODIS-LCZ global land cover dataset is produced for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model starting from version 4.5. It is based on 1) the Copernicus Global Land Service Land Cover (CGLC, Buchhorn et al., 2021) product resampled to MODIS IGBP classes (CGLC-MODIS), and 2) the global map of Local Climate Zones (LCZ, Demuzere et al., 2022a, b) that describes the urban and built-up land surface. Both the CGLC and LCZ products are available at a 100-m spatial resolution, are representative for the year 2018, and cover -180°W to 180°E and -60°S to 78°N. Remaining areas are filled with the MODIS land cover classes. This dataset has been implemented into the WRF Preprocessing System (WPS) as tiled binary data files with a new GEOGRID table entry to allow WRF/WPS users to flexibly use this dataset in their studies particularly for urban modeling applications.

To display the dataset in QGIS, cmap_Qgis_CGLC_MOD_LCZ.txt can be used as a color scheme.

For more details, please read the technical documentation:  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7670792.

References:

Buchhorn, M., Smets, B., Bertels, L., De Roo, B., Lesiv, M., Tsendbazar, N.-E., Li, L., Tarko, A. Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: version 3 Globe 2015-2019: Product User Manual (Dataset v3.0, doc issue 3.4). Product User Manual; Zenodo, Geneve, Switzerland, September 2020; doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3938963

Demuzere M, Kittner J, Martilli A, et al. A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science. Earth Syst Sci Data. 2022a;14(8):3835-3873. doi:10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022

Demuzere M, Kittner J, Martilli A, et al. (2022). Global map of Local Climate Zones (2.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6364593