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MIRCA2000

Monthly Irrigated and Rainfed Crop Areas around the year 2000. Monthly growing areas for 26 crop classes.

Irrigated and rainfed harvested and growing areas for 26 crop classes with crop calendars, the usual input for crop water requirement calculations in global models.

Source
Goethe University Frankfurt
Resolution
5 arc-minutes (about 10 km)
Data type
Raster
Time span
About 2000
Temporal
Monthly crop calendars
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
ASCII grid
Coverage
Global land (-180, -60, 180, 90)
Licence
See provider terms
Provider page
www.uni-frankfurt.de/45218023/MIRCA

Cite as. Portmann, F. T., Siebert, S., Döll, P. (2010). MIRCA2000, Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24, GB1011. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GB003435

Access

linkMIRCA2000 page and downloads

https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/45218023/MIRCA

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/mirca2000/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record