The Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Program (VEMAP) was a multi-
institutional, international effort that addressed the response of
biogeography and biochemistry to environmental variability in climate and
other drivers in both space and time domains.
The objectives of VEMAP were to:
- study the intercomparison of biogeochemistry models and vegetation type distribution (biogeography) models
- determine model sensitivity to changing climate, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and other sources of altered forcing
The VEMAP project was conducted in two phases.
VEMAP Phase 1 was structured as a sensitivity analysis with combinations of climate (current and projected under doubled CO2); atmospheric CO2; and mapped and model-generated vegetation distributions. The highly structured nature of the intercomparison allowed rigorous analysis of results while constraining the range of questions explored. The data used as model input in VEMAP Phase 1 were published on CD-ROM as:
The objective of VEMAP Phase 2 was to compare time-dependent ecological responses of biogeochemical and coupled biogeochemical-biogeographical models to historical and projected transient forcings across the conterminous U.S. These model experiments were driven by historical time series and projected transient scenarios of climate and atmospheric CO2.
- VEMAP Phase 1 User's Guide (PDF)
- VEMAP Phase 2 User's Guide (PDF)
- See list of data sets and download data
- Browse VEMAP Data Holdings by selected attributes
- Retrieve VEMAP Phase 1 data by FTP browse
- Retrieve VEMAP Phase 2 data by FTP browse
- Search VEMAP Metadata (Mercury)
- VEMAP Home
- Guidance on When to use the VEMAP Data
- VEMAP Phase 2 Data Policy
- VEMAP 2 Transient Dynamics Data
- VEMAP: 100 Years of Climate Data