Simulated European Winter Wheat Yields and Meteorological Drivers

A subset from Vogel et al. (2021) provides large-ensemble simulations of winter wheat yields aggregated at the country level for 20 European countries. The yields were simulated by the APSIM-Wheat model driven by meteorological data from the EC-Earth global climate model. The dataset also includes monthly means of precipitation, vapour pressure deficit, and maximum temperature fields for France and Germany.

Use Cases

• Analyzing spatial compounding of crop failures across Europe based on simulated yield data.
• Investigating meteorological drivers of crop failure using monthly precipitation, temperature, and vapour pressure deficit fields.
• Validating or comparing crop model outputs against large-ensemble simulations for winter wheat.
• Assessing climate risk and resilience for major European wheat producers like France and Germany.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a peer-reviewed publication in Earth System Dynamics (Vogel et al., 2021).
• Covers 20 European countries at the country-aggregation level.
• Includes meteorological driver data (precipitation, vapour pressure deficit, maximum temperature) for two key producing nations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Vogel et al. (2021), ETH Zurich

Collection Method

Simulated by the APSIM-Wheat model (version 7.10) driven by meteorological data from the EC-Earth global climate model.

Geography

20 European countries, with detailed meteorological data for France and Germany.