Forest Cover Map 2000 This Map shows the forestcover in the year 2000 It has been produced by the Forest Cover Monitoring Unit which is established within SBB. This map was made with use of Landsat Imagery.

This layer has been provided by MI-GLIS

Part of the Integrated Vulnerability Assessment in the Arab Region, this 1km pixel resolution raster dataset provides a representation of future change in vulnerability for Biodiversity and Ecosystems: Area Covered by Wetlands sub-sector, in the Middle East and North Africa Region. The Raster grid was generated for high representative concentration pathway (RCP8.5) emission scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for future time period Mid-Century (2046-2065). Pixel values are classified according to level of vulnerability, from low 1 to high 10. Vulnerability is a concept used to express the complex interaction of climate change effects and the susceptibility of a system to its impacts. The integrated vulnerability assessment methodology is based on an understanding of vulnerability as a function of a system’s climate change exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity to cope with climate change effects, consistent with the approach put forward by the IPCC in its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). It adopts the time periods generally used by the IPCC and other regional climate modelling experiments, and runs climate simulations based on future time periods that are compared with a historical reference period.

Part of the Integrated Vulnerability Assessment in the Arab Region, this 1km pixel resolution raster dataset provides a representation of Sensitivity to climate change impact for the Manmade dimension indicator – Areas Under Cultural Heritage Protection - in the Middle East and North Africa Region. Vulnerability is a concept used to express the complex interaction of climate change effects and the susceptibility of a system to its impacts. The integrated vulnerability assessment methodology is based on an understanding of vulnerability as a function of a system’s climate change exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity to cope with climate change effects, consistent with the approach put forward by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Within this conceptual framework, Sensitivity provides information about the status quo of the physical and natural environment that makes the affected systems particularly susceptible to climate change. Sensitivity indicators were clustered into three dimensions: population, natural, and manmade. Within the vulnerability assessment methodology, it is assumed the indicators retain the same values for reference period and future periods. A class value of 1 was assigned to represent a favorable condition (low sensitivity) while a class value of 10 designates an unfavorable condition.

Total Biomass Production (TBP) is defined as the sum of the above-ground dry matter produced during the course of the growing season. The seasonal value represents the total accumulated biomass during one growing season, from start of season (SOS) to end of season (EOS). A pixel value of -9997 denotes "out of season". The data is provided in near real time from January 2009 to present.

The Evaporation (E) data component is the actual evaporation of the soil surface. The value of each pixel represents the total annual evaporation for that specific year. The data is provided in near real time from January 2009 to present.