MPI-ESM-1.2 output of LAMACLIMA work package 1 (WP1): idealized constant global cropland expansion (CROP) under present-day environmental conditions - Emon

Guo, Suqi; Havermann, Felix; De Hertog, Steven; Luo, Fei; Manola, Iris; Thiery, Wim; Lejeune, Quentin; Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich; Pongratz, Julia; Seeberg, Gereon

MPI-ESM-1.2 output of LAMACLIMA work package 1 (WP1): idealized constant global cropland expansion (CROP) under present-day environmental conditions - Emon

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Guo, Suqi et al.

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This dataset contains MPI-ESM-1.2-LR output from the work package 1 (WP1) CROP scenario of idealized constant global cropland expansion. The simulation branches from the 2014 CMIP6 historical concentration-driven simulation and spans 160 years (2015-01-01 to 2174-12-31), with anthropogenic (trace gases, aerosols, population density) and natural forcings (solar radiation, wildfire, lightning, natural aerosols) held constant at 2014 levels.
In the CROP scenario, land cover changes to cropland PFTs (C3 and C4 crops) on the entire fraction of hospitable land of each land grid cell. This is applied in a checkerboard-like pattern to half of all land grid cells within the first to fifth year of the simulation by providing specific land use transition files. Basically, all PFTs that are neither cropland (such as pasture, grassland, shrubland, and forest) nor bare soil (unhospitable land) were reduced to the minimum fraction value (fract_small = 1e-10). The remaining crop fractions are increased such that fractions within a grid cell add up to 100 %. As the bare soil fraction is preserved, the resulting land cover map only contains crop PFTs and bare soil.
Generally, we ran the land model JSBACH3.2 with the following options:
- use_dynveg = false
- use_disturbance = true
- lcc_forcing_type = transitions
- lcc_scheme = 2
The approach mimics cropland expansion across all vegetated areas but avoids cropland being established in e.g. desert, high-altitude and tundra regions (unhospitable land). The checkerboard-like pattern, with its homogeneous distribution of changed and unchanged grid cells, allows the application of an established method to separate local and nonlocal biogeophyiscal as well as biogoechemical effects of this land cover change (see Winckler et al., 2017 (doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0067.1), De Hertog et al., 2023 (doi: 10.5194/esd-14-629-2023), and Guo et al., 2025 (doi: 10.5194/esd-16-631-2025)).
Project: LAMACLIMA (Output of fully coupled Earth system model simulations for LAMACLIMA research project: four idealized constant global land-use scenarios (WP1) and two contrasting policy-relevant future mitigation land-use scenarios (WP4).)
Spatial Coverage: Longitude 0 to 360 Latitude -90 to 90
Temporal Coverage: 2015-01-01 to 2176-12-31 (proleptic_gregorian)
Use constraints: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog: World Data Center for Climate
Access constraints: registered users
Size: 22.58 GiB (24240258041 Byte)
Format: NetCDF
Status: completely archived
Creation Date: 2025-10-23
Review Date: 2025-10-23
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Guo, Suqi; Havermann, Felix; De Hertog, Steven; Luo, Fei; Manola, Iris; Thiery, Wim; Lejeune, Quentin; Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich; Pongratz, Julia; Seeberg, Gereon (2025). MPI-ESM-1.2 output of LAMACLIMA work package 1 (WP1): idealized global land-use scenarios, including cropland expansion, re-/afforestation, irrigation, wood harvest, and reference control. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LC_WP1_MP

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Variable	Aggregation	Unit
area_fraction CF	Emon	%
carbon_mass_flux_into_forestry_and_agricultural_products_due_to_anthropogenic_land_use_or_land_cover_change CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
dew_point_temperature CF	Emon	K
gross_primary_productivity_of_biomass_expressed_as_carbon CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
leaf_area_index CF	Emon	1
litter_mass_content_of_carbon CF	Emon	kg m-2
litter_mass_content_of_nitrogen CF	Emon	kg m-2
mass_content_of_carbon_in_vegetation_and_litter_and_soil_and_forestry_and_agricultural_products CF	Emon	kg m-2
mass_content_of_nitrogen_in_vegetation_and_litter_and_soil_and_forestry_and_agricultural_products CF	Emon	kg m-2
mass_content_of_water_in_soil_layer CF	Emon	kg m-2
mass_flux_of_carbon_into_forestry_and_agricultural_products_due_to_crop_harvesting CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
mass_flux_of_carbon_out_of_soil_due_to_leaching_and_runoff CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
mass_flux_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_out_of_litter_and_soil_due_to_immobilisation_and_remineralization CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
minus_tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_due_to_deposition CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
net_primary_productivity_of_biomass_expressed_as_carbon CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
nitrogen_mass_content_of_forestry_and_agricultural_products CF	Emon	kg m-2
nitrogen_mass_flux_into_forestry_and_agricultural_products_due_to_anthropogenic_land_use_or_land_cover_change CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
sinking_mole_flux_of_calcite_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water CF	Emon	mol m-2 s-1
sinking_mole_flux_of_particulate_silicon_in_sea_water CF	Emon	mol m-2 s-1
soil_mass_content_of_carbon CF	Emon	kg m-2
soil_mass_content_of_inorganic_nitrogen_expressed_as_nitrogen CF	Emon	kg m-2
soil_mass_content_of_nitrogen CF	Emon	kg m-2
surface_net_downward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_all_land_processes CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_net_downward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_all_land_processes_excluding_anthropogenic_land_use_change CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_net_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_emission_from_anthropogenic_land_use_change CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_heterotrophic_respiration CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_plant_respiration CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_due_to_heterotrophic_respiration_in_soil CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_due_to_all_land_processes_excluding_fires CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_due_to_emission_from_fires CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_out_of_vegetation_and_litter_and_soil CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_nitrous_oxide_expressed_as_nitrogen_out_of_vegetation_and_litter_and_soil CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_emission_from_forestry_and_agricultural_products CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_due_to_anthropogenic_emission CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_mole_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water_due_to_net_primary_production_by_diazotrophs CF	Emon	mol m-3 s-1
tendency_of_mole_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water_due_to_net_primary_production_by_miscellaneous_phytoplankton CF	Emon	mol m-3 s-1
tendency_of_soil_and_vegetation_mass_content_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_due_to_fixation CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_vegetation_mass_content_of_nitrogen_compounds_expressed_as_nitrogen_due_to_fixation CF	Emon	kg m-2 s-1
vegetation_carbon_content CF	Emon	kg m-2
vegetation_mass_content_of_nitrogen CF	Emon	kg m-2

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MPI-ESM-1.2 output of LAMACLIMA work package 1 (WP1): idealized constant global cropland expansion (CROP) under present-day environmental conditions.

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Output of fully coupled Earth system model simulations for LAMACLIMA research project: four idealized constant global land-use scenarios (WP1) and two contrasting policy-relevant future mitigation land-use scenarios (WP4).

[Entry acronym: LC_WP1_MP_CROP_Emon] [Entry id: 5330595]