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Long-term database of historical, current, and future land cover for the Delaware River Basin (1680 through 2100)

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Publication Date
Start Date
1680
End Date
2100

Citation

Dornbierer, J.M., Wika, S., Robison, C.J., Rouze, G.S., and Sohl, T.L., 2021, Long-term database of historical, current, and future land cover for the Delaware River Basin (1680 through 2100): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93J4Z2W.

Summary

The USGS’s FORE-SCE model was used to produce a long-term landscape dataset for the Delaware River Basin (DRB). Using historical landscape reconstruction and scenario-based future projections, the data provided land-use and land-cover (LULC) data for the DRB from year 1680 through 2100, with future projections from 2020-2100 modeled for 7 different socioeconomic-based scenarios, and 3 climate realizations for each socioeconomic scenario (21 scenario combinations in total). The projections are characterized by 1) high spatial resolution (30-meter cells), 2) high thematic resolution (20 land use and land cover classes), 3) broad spatial extent (covering the entirety of the Delaware River basin, corresponding to USGS HUC codes 020401 [...]

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DRB_Historical_Reconstruction_1680-2010.zip
“Historical Landscape Reconstruction - 1680 to 2100”
269.93 MB application/zip
DRB_BAU_RCP45_2020-2100.zip
“Business-as-usual scenario - RCP4.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
75.17 MB application/zip
DRB_BAU_RCP85_2020-2100.zip
“Business-as-usual scenario - RCP8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
72.56 MB application/zip
DRB_BAU_RCPAvg_2020-2100.zip
“Business-as-usual scenario - Avg. RCP 4.5 & 8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.19 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU40_RCP45_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$40 price scenario - RCP4.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
75.7 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU40_RCP85_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$40 price scenario - RCP8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.09 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU40_RCPAvg_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$40 price scenario, Avg. RCP 4.5 & 8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.73 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU60_RCP45_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$60 price scenario - RCP4.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
76.41 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU60_RCP85_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$60 price scenario - RCP8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.6 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU60_RCPAvg_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$60 price scenario - Avg. RCP 4.5 & 8.5 climate - 2020 to 2100”
68.89 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU80_RCP45_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$80 price scenario - RCP4.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
76.19 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU80_RCP85_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$80 price scenario - RCP8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.18 MB application/zip
DRB_BTU80_RCPAvg_2020-2100.zip
“Billion Ton w/$80 price scenario - Avg. RCP 4.5 & 8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
74.53 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAM26_RCP45_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM 2.6 scenario - RCP4.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
76.37 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAM26_RCP85_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM 2.6 scenario - RCP8.5 climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.64 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAM26_RCPAvg_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM 2.6 scenario - Avg. RCP 4.5 & 8.5 climate - 2020 to 2100”
74.34 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAM45_RCP45_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM 4.5 scenario - RCP4.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
76.27 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAM45_RCP85_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM 4.5 scenario - RCP8.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.7 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAM45_RCPAvg_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM 4.5 scenario - Avg. RCP 4.5 & 8.5 climate - 2020 to 2100”
74.32 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAMRef_RCP45_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM Ref. scenario - RCP4.5 Climate - 2020 to 2100”
75.71 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAMRef_RCP85_2020-2100.zip
“GCAM Ref. scenario - RCP8.5 climate - 2020 to 2100”
72.76 MB application/zip
DRB_GCAMRef_RCPAvg_2020_2100.zip
“GCAM Ref. scenario - Avg. RCP 4.5 & 8.5 climate - 2020 to 2100”
73.93 MB application/zip

Purpose

The data were produced from the Forecasting Scenarios of land-use (FORE-SCE) model, for the purpose of facilitating research on interactions of land-use change with a host of societal and ecological processes.

Rights

Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. Future projections of land cover are scenario based, and as such are not meant to provide a forecast or prediction as to the future state of the landscape. They are visualizations of potential future land-cover configurations under specific combinations of pre-defined socioeconomic and biophysical driving forces, each of which individual may or may not occur in the future. Scenario-based land-cover projections are designed to facilitate the exploration of potential future conditions and help address "what if" questions related to future climate and land cover.

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  • Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP)
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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P93J4Z2W
USGS_MissionArea https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Core Science Systems
USGS_keywords https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Geography, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing

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