PBL IMAGE SSP Scenarios: Global Net Primary Production from 1970 to 2100

Global net primary production (NPP) data from 1970 to 2100, representing CO2 sequestered by plants into new tissue. The dataset is produced by the IMAGE team and licensed under CC-BY, with scenarios documented in a published journal article. It covers land grid cells at a 5 arcmin resolution.

Use Cases

• Modeling future carbon sequestration potential based on SSP scenario projections.
• Analyzing spatial and temporal trends in global plant productivity based on land grid cell data.
• Assessing the impact of land-use changes on ecosystem carbon pools based on the described plant carbon pools.
• Calibrating or validating Earth system models using historical (1970 onward) and projected NPP data.

Strengths

• Provides a long-term temporal coverage from 1970 to 2100.
• Based on documented SSP scenarios from a peer-reviewed publication.
• Offers global spatial coverage at a 5 arcmin resolution for land areas.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

IMAGE team, associated with the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties.

Collection Method

Output from the IMAGE integrated assessment model under Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios.

Time Range

1970 to 2100

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Global land areas