Tropical Africa: Land Use, Biomass, and Carbon Estimates for 1980 (and updated for the year 2000) (NDP-055)

Dataset · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP055· OSTI ID:1389503

Brown, S. ^[1]; Gaston, G. ^[2]

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1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NHEERL - Western Ecology Division; OSTI
2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NHEERL - Western Ecology Division

This document describes the contents of a digital database containing maximum potential aboveground biomass, land use, and estimated biomass and carbon data for 1980. The biomass data and carbon estimates are associated with woody vegetation in Tropical Africa. These data were collected to reduce the uncertainty associated with estimating historical releases of carbon from land use change. Tropical Africa is defined here as encompassing 22.7 x 10E6 km2 of the earth's land surface and is comprised of countries that are located in tropical Africa (Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo,Uganda, Burkina Faso (Upper Volta), Zaire, and Zambia). The database was developed using the GRID module in the ARC/INFO (TM geographic information system. Source data were obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the U.S. National Geophysical Data Center, and a limited number of biomass-carbon density case studies. These data were used to derive the maximum potential and actual (ca. 1980) aboveground biomass values at regional and country levels. The land-use data provided were derived from a vegetation map originally produced for the FAO by the International Institute of Vegetation Mapping, Toulouse, France.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055.html

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
• Sponsoring Organization: U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1389503
• Report Number(s): doi:10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP055; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/lue.ndp055
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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1980
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ADMP
Africa
Biomass
CNTRYNUM
COLS
CSIZE
Carbon
Carbon release
Climate change
Deforestation
Forestry
LANDAREA
Land cover
Land use
NAME
NHEERL - Western Ecology Division
NODATA
NROWS
NUM X
PD60
PD70
PD80
PD90
Population
REGNAME
Release of carbon from land use change
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
VALUE
XLLCORNR
YLLCORNR
YNCOLS