Fig. 7: Differences with model representations of urbanization.
From: Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications
a Shows global urban percentage across eight urban land cover datasets as well as two additional estimates of urban areas used in weather and climate models over Europe. LCZ 1 to 10 refer to the ten built up local climate zones. b Shows linear regressions between grid-wise urban percentage in the GISA dataset for the year 2001 versus the total urban percentage from medium density, high density, and tall building districts classes of the Jackson et al. (2010)14 dataset for the world and each continent. The line of best fit, coefficient of determination (r2), mean bias error (MBE), mean percentage error (MPE), and sample size (n) are provided for each case.
