The Profound dataset for checking and benchmarking of dynamic vegetation models

About the database

The PROFOUND database is a collection of data for calibrating, validating and benchmarking dynamic vegetation models, created by Cost Action FP1304 PROFOUND

• The code to clean the data / create the database is available here.
• News / version infos / changes of the code here
• The database itself, including document and description of the dasta, is hosted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research http://doi.org/10.5880/PIK.2019.008. You can dowload the database either there, or, if you have the R pacakge installed (see below), via

library(ProfoundData)
downloadDatabase()

The ProfoundData R package

The ProfoundData R package helps users to download and explore the PROFOUND database from the R environment.

Installing the package

CRAN install will come soon. If you want to install the current (development) version from this repository, run

devtools::install_github(repo = "COST-FP1304-PROFOUND/ProfoundData", 
subdir = "ProfoundData", 
dependencies = T, build_vignettes = T)

Below the status of the automatic Travis CI tests on the master branch (if this doesn load see here)

First steps

To get an overview about its functionality once the package is installed, run

library(ProfoundData)
?ProfoundData
vignette("ProfoundData", package="ProfoundData")

To cite the package, run

citation("ProfoundData")