Land Alloction

Land Cover Model, relations, input and output

The objective of the Land-Cover Model (LCM) is to simulate global land-use and land-cover changes by reconciling the land-use demand with the land potential. The basic idea of the model is to keep changing gridded land cover within different world regions until the total demands for this region are satisfied.

Relations with other models

The LCM is driven by changes in the demand for food and feed as computed by the Agricultural Economy Model (AEM) and by changes in the potential vegetation as simulated by the Natural Vegetation Model (NVM). The output of the LCM is used by the Terrestrial Carbon Model (TCM), the Land-Use Emissions Model (LUEM) and the Land Degradation Model (LDM).  

• to  Agricultural Economy Model (AEM)
• to  Natural Vegetation Model (NVM)
• to  Terrestrial Carbon Model (TCM)
• to  Land-Use Emissions Model (LUEM)
• to  Land Degradation Model (LDM)                

• to  Land-Cover Model, model structure
• to  external references
• to  MNP references