A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000–2018
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Published:2020-02-10
Issue:1
Volume:12
Page:257-276
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ISSN:1866-3516
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Container-title:Earth System Science Data
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Earth Syst. Sci. Data
Author:
Forzieri GiovanniORCID, Pecchi Matteo, Girardello Marco, Mauri Achille, Klaus Marcus, Nikolov Christo, Rüetschi Marius, Gardiner Barry, Tomaštík JuliánORCID, Small DavidORCID, Nistor ConstantinORCID, Jonikavicius DonatasORCID, Spinoni Jonathan, Feyen Luc, Giannetti FrancescaORCID, Comino Rinaldo, Wolynski Alessandro, Pirotti FrancescoORCID, Maistrelli Fabio, Savulescu Ionut, Wurpillot-Lucas Stéphanie, Karlsson Stefan, Zieba-Kulawik Karolina, Strejczek-Jazwinska PaulinaORCID, Mokroš Martin, Franz Stefan, Krejci Lukas, Haidu IonelORCID, Nilsson Mats, Wezyk Piotr, Catani FilippoORCID, Chen Yi-YingORCID, Luyssaert SebastiaanORCID, Chirici Gherardo, Cescatti AlessandroORCID, Beck Pieter S. A.
Abstract
Abstract. Strong winds may uproot and break trees and represent a major natural disturbance for European forests. Wind disturbances have intensified over the last decades globally and are expected to further
rise in view of the effects of climate change. Despite the importance of such natural disturbances, there are currently no spatially explicit databases of wind-related impact at a pan-European scale. Here, we present a new database of wind disturbances in European forests (FORWIND). FORWIND is comprised of more than 80 000 spatially delineated areas in Europe that were disturbed by wind in the period 2000–2018 and describes them in a harmonized and consistent geographical vector format. The database includes all major windstorms that occurred over the observational period (e.g. Gudrun, Kyrill, Klaus, Xynthia and Vaia) and represents approximately 30 % of the reported damaging wind events in Europe. Correlation analyses between the areas in FORWIND and land cover changes retrieved from the Landsat-based Global Forest Change dataset and the MODIS Global Disturbance Index corroborate the robustness of FORWIND. Spearman rank coefficients range between 0.27 and 0.48 (p value < 0.05). When recorded forest areas are rescaled based on their damage degree, correlation increases to 0.54. Wind-damaged growing stock volumes reported in national inventories (FORESTORM dataset) are generally higher than analogous metrics provided by FORWIND in combination with satellite-based biomass and country-scale statistics of growing stock volume. The potential of FORWIND is explored for a range of challenging topics and scientific fields, including scaling relations of wind damage, forest vulnerability modelling, remote sensing monitoring of forest disturbance, representation of uprooting and breakage of trees in large-scale land surface models, and hydrogeological risks following wind damage. Overall, FORWIND represents an essential and open-access spatial source that can be used to improve the understanding, detection and prediction of wind disturbances and the consequent impacts on forest ecosystems and the land–atmosphere system. Data sharing is encouraged in order to continuously update and improve FORWIND. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9555008
(Forzieri et al., 2019).
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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