Global gridded crop harvested area, production, yield, and monthly physical area data circa 2015

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Here we provide an update to global gridded annual and monthly crop datasets. This new dataset uses the crop categories established by the Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) Version 3 model, which is based on the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) crop production data. We used publicly available data from the FAOSTAT database as well as GAEZ Version 4 global gridded dataset to generate circa 2015 annual crop harvested area, production, and yields by crop production system (irrigated and rainfed) for 26 crops and crop categories globally at 5-minute resolution. We additionally used available data on crop rotations, cropping intensity, and planting and harvest dates to generate monthly gridded cropland data for physical areas for the 26 crops by production system. These data are in standard georeferenced gridded format, and can be used by any global hydrology, land surface, or other earth system model that requires gridded annual or monthly crop data inputs.

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Measurement(s)	crop yield • crop harvest area • crop production • area of cropland
Technology Type(s)	national reporting
Sample Characteristic - Environment	agriculture
Sample Characteristic - Location	global

Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.16924087

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Bernhard Lehner, Kristine Verdin, Andy Jarvis (2008)

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Danielle Grogan:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7661-8454

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Steve Frolking:

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sci Data

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sci Data

Title: Scientific Data

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 2052-4463

Publication date (Electronic): 20 January 2022

Publication date PMC-release: 20 January 2022

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Volume: 9

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[1 ]GRID grid.167436.1, ISNI 0000 0001 2192 7145, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, , University of New Hampshire, ; Durham, USA

[2 ]Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

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DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01115-2

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Date received : 8 February 2021

Date accepted : 7 December 2021

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Funded by: FundRef https://doi.org/10.13039/100007861, UF | Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences);

Funded by: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Funded by: FundRef https://doi.org/10.13039/100000015, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE);

Award ID: DE-SC0016162

Award Recipient : Steve Frolking

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Global gridded crop harvested area, production, yield, and monthly physical area data circa 2015

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