reports land-use change
Arguments
- gdx
GDX file
- baseyear
baseyear for calculating land-use change. Ignored if annual is TRUE.
- level
An aggregation level for the spatial dimension. Can be any level available via superAggregateX.
- annual
If FALSE (default), report cumulative land-use change relative to baseyear (million ha wrt baseyear) for all land types. If TRUE, report the average annual net change rate per time step (million ha/yr) for primary forest and natural planted forest. The first time step has no preceding time step and is set to 0.
Value
land-use change as MAgPIE object (million ha wrt to baseyear, or million ha/yr if annual is TRUE)
Land-use change variables
| Name | Unit | Meta |
| Resources|Land Cover Change|Cropland | million ha wrt baseyear | Change in cropland area relative to baseyear |
| Resources|Land Cover Change|Pastures and Rangelands | million ha wrt baseyear | Change in pasture area relative to baseyear |
| Resources|Land Cover Change|Forest | million ha wrt baseyear | Change in forest area relative to baseyear |
| Resources|Land Cover Change|Other Land | million ha wrt baseyear | Change in other land area relative to baseyear |
Annual land-use change variables (annual = TRUE)
| Name | Unit | Meta |
| Resources|Land Cover Change|Forest|Natural Forest|Primary Forest|Annual | million ha/yr | Average annual net change in primary forest area over the time step |
| Resources|Land Cover Change|Forest|Planted Forest|Natural|Annual | million ha/yr | Average annual net change in natural planted forest area over the time step |