Urban Land Module (34_urban)¶

• Table of contents
• Urban Land Module (34_urban)
  • Description
  • Interfaces
    • Input
    • Interface plot
  • Realizations
    • (A) static (default)
  • Developer(s)
  • See Also

Description¶

The urban module is one of the land modules in MAgPIE (see also the other land modules: 30_crop, 31_pasture, 32_forestry, 33_forest and 35_other). It describes urban settlements areas and estimates their corresponding carbon content.

Interfaces¶

Input¶

Name	Description	Unit	A
pcm_land(j,"urban",siclass)	urban land of the previous time step	mio. ha	x
vm_land(j,"urban",siclass)	siclass-specific urban area in each cell	mio. ha	x
vm_carbon_stock(j,"urban",soilc)	cell and carbon pool specific carbon stock of urban area	mio. tC	x

_{The last columns of the table indicate the usage in the different realizations (numbered with capital letters)}

Interface plot¶

Figure 0: Information exchange among modules

Realizations¶

(A) static (default)¶

In this realization urban land remains static with the spatial distribution observed in 1995:

\begin{equation}
vm\_land.fx(j,"urban",si) = pcm\_land(j,"urban",si)
\end{equation}

Carbon contents of all these urban areas are assumed to be 0:
\begin{equation}
vm\_carbon\_stock.fx(j,"urban",c\_pools) = 0
\end{equation}

Limitations
There are currently no known limitations of this realization.

Developer(s)¶

Jan Philipp Dietrich

See Also¶

Overview, 30_crop, 31_pasture, 32_forestry, 33_forest, 35_other, 39_landconversion