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Pan-European Land Cover Scenarios (100 m)


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Abstract

The land cover (LC) dataset represents current LC (S0) and five LC transformation scenarios (S1–S5) across Europe. These scenarios encompass extreme and moderate deforestation, as well as low, moderate, and high afforestation. Cells in each dataset are encoded using eight categorical classes:
1: Bare Soil, 2: Grass and Cropland, 3: Grass and Cropland & Deciduous Forest, 4: Deciduous Forest, 5: Deciduous & Coniferous Forest (Mixed Forest), 6: Coniferous Forest, 7: Urban, 8: Water.
The baseline dataset (S0) represents the reclassified land cover derived primarily from the CORINE Land Cover dataset. Afforestation scenarios (S3–S5) additionally incorporate Total Tree Potential and treeline elevation to determine feasible tree cover and elevation constraints. All deforestation and afforestation scenarios were constructed using logical operators that identify target cells and reassign them to new LC classes. Deforestation involves replacing forested classes with bare soil (S1) and grass/cropland (S2). This product is designed to support hydrological modelling, climate–land–water assessments, groundwater planning, and environmental analyses. All files are delivered in GeoTIFF (float32) format at a spatial resolution of 100 × 100 m. The dataset uses the ETRS89 / LAEA Europe projection (EPSG: 3035).

● The data repository includes a README.pdf file that describes the dataset collection and lists all raster (GeoTIFF) products.

● Further methodological details are provided in Nabaei et al. (2026) and in the Appendices of the associated publication.

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● How to cite:

Nabaei, S., Ali, A.M., & Teuling, A.J. (2026). Impact of Forest Cover on Groundwater Recharge: A High-Resolution Scenario Analysis for Europe. Global Environmental Change, XX, XXXXXX. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2026.XXXXXX

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Europe
North Latitude
71.4100°
East Longitude
44.8200°
South Latitude
35.0000°
West Longitude
-25.0000°

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Related Resources

This resource is referenced by Pan-European Groundwater Recharge (100 m): http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/1ff5b54981484d878aa7a4094c689fcb
This resource is referenced by Pan-European Actual Evapotranspiration (100 m): http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/46b4461418cf4dd08f65c71db7bae9a8

How to Cite

Nabaei, S., A. M. Ali, A. J. Teuling (2025). Pan-European Land Cover Scenarios (100 m), HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/125d6d07001a45d69a23f9550d593f13

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