June 5, 2014
Journal Article

Downscaling Global Land Cover Projections from an Integrated Assessment Model for Use in Regional Analyses: Results and Evaluation for the US from 2005 to 2095

Abstract

Projections of land cover change generated from Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) and other economic-based models can be applied for analyses of environmental impacts at subregional and landscape scales. For those IAM and economic models that project land use at the sub-continental or regional scale, these projections must be downscaled and spatially distributed prior to use in climate or ecosystem models. Downscaling efforts to date have been conducted at the national extent with relatively high spatial resolution (30m) and at the global extent with relatively coarse spatial resolution (0.5 degree).

Revised: June 13, 2014 | Published: June 5, 2014

Citation

West T.O., Y. Le Page, M. Huang, J. Wolf, and A.M. Thomson. 2014. Downscaling Global Land Cover Projections from an Integrated Assessment Model for Use in Regional Analyses: Results and Evaluation for the US from 2005 to 2095. Environmental Research Letters 9, no. 6:Article No. 064004. PNNL-SA-100843. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064004