ICLUS Fourth National Climate Assessment
ICLUS (version 2) outputs made available to the regional groups of the National Climate Assessment consist of populations. The projections are based on the 2010 U.S. Census and use fertility, mortality and immigration rates from the Wittgenstein Centre to project decadal population to 2100. These projections are therefore consistent with the demographic assumptions of the SSP2 and SSP5 socioeconomic scenarios. ICLUS population projections are used as inputs to a land use model, which spatially allocates five residential land uses (exurban-low, exurban-high, suburban, urban-low, urban-high) as well as commercial and industrial.
Datasets available below cover the contiguous United States. All datasets are compatible with standard geographic information systems.
Dataset | Description | Metadata |
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Population Data (SSP2 & SSP5) | 9.83 MB, Shapefile format | Population Projections |
Land Use Data (SSP2) | 1.63 GB, GeoTIFF format | ICLUS v2.1 Land Use Projections (SSP2) |
Land Use Data (SSP5) | 1.66 GB, GeoTIFF format | ICLUS v2.1 Land Use Projections (SSP5) |
The graphs below provide an overview of population and developed land area trends across the two scenarios, SSP2 and SSP5, over time for the continental U.S.
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Additional Information about ICLUS
- Learn more about the recent Updates to the Demographic and Spatial Allocation Models to Produce Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS) (Version 2.0)
- 3rd National Climate Assessment: ICLUS data made available to the regional groups of the National Climate Assessment consists of population and housing density. [Links: Northwest | Southwest | Great Plains | Midwest | Northeast | Southeast]