Characterising the response of vegetation cover to water limitation in Africa using geostationary satellites

Ecohydrological metrics of vegetation over Africa at 0.0417° resolution. The data are derived from the Fraction of Vegetation Cover (FVC) product estimated by Trigo et al., 2011 using the retrievals of the geostationary satellite Meteosat Second Generation. The data consist 3 files as: (i) asymptotic minimum and maximum FVC, (ii) start day, duration, and FVC integral of the dry season, and (iii) the decay rate of FVC during dry-down. Files (ii) and (iii) has variation as a quality diagnostic. In addition, (iii) has number of convergences as another quality diagnostic. Dataset Reference: Küçük Ç., Koirala S., Carvalhais N., Miralles D.G., Reichstein M., and Jung M. (2020) Characterising the response of vegetation cover to water limitation in Africa using geostationary satellites. This dataset was previously published via the GeoDB data portal hosted at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biogeochemistry, Jena.