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Forestation and irrigation effects on the water cycle in Brazil

  • 1. ROR icon Stockholm Resilience Centre
  • 2. ROR icon Stockholm Environment Institute

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Description

Supplementary Data for the publication entitled "Forestation and irrigation effects on the water cycle in Brazil". It contains: 

 

 

 

File name Description Columns
grid.gpkg Map with U-Track sized gridcells used in this study.

n - gridcell ID

basin_name - macrobasin where the gridcell is mostly located

state_name - Brazilian state where the gridcell is mostly located

region_name - Brazilian region where the gridcell is mostly located

geom - geometry

mapbiomas_landuseclasses.csv Output from Google Earth Engine, demonstrating the area corresponding to each land use class at the gridcell level.

n - gridcell ID

year - year 

class - land use class, after reclassification (see paper for methodology)

area_km2 - area of the gridcell in km^2

pr_et_pet_CURR Monthly precipitation, evapotranspiration and potential evapotranspiration for the baseline scenario (CURR) at the gridcell level.

n - gridcell ID

month - month

pet - potential evapotransipiration in gridcell

et - evapotranspiration in gridcell

pr

pr_et_analyses Changes in precipitation and evaportranspiration for each analyses in the study at the gridcell level.

n - gridcell ID

month

analysis.name

var

diffp

aridity_waterstress Levels of aridity and water stress estimated at the gridcell level.

n - gridcell ID

aridity - estimated as the 10-year (2008-2017) mean of the annual precipitation (Hersbach et al. 2020), divided by the annual reference evaporation values for Brazil (Althoff et al. 2020). The aridity levels were classified based on the Atlas of Desertification method and thresholds (Zomer et al. 2022).

water_stress - obtained per basin from the Brazilian Water Agency (Agência Nacional das Águas, ANA) report on quantitative water balance, and rasterized into gridcells. The levels of water stress are classified between low, medium, high, very high, critical, and intermittent.

Notes (English)

This research was supported by Formas – a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (2020-00688, to MJL) for the project entitled “Water use and impacts of Brazilian agricultural production and consumption: from global supply chains to regional rainfall”.

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Funding

Swedish Research Council for Environment Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
Water Use and Impacts of Brazilian Agricultural Production and Consumption: From Global Supply Chains to Regional Precipitation 2020-00688

Dates

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2026-03-05