National housing and impervious surface scenarios for integrated climate impact assessments.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the impacts of climate change on people and the environment requires an understanding of the dynamics of both climate and land use/land cover changes. A range of future climate scenarios is available for the conterminous United States that have been developed based on widely used international greenhouse gas emissions storylines. Climate scenarios derived from these emissions storylines have not been matched with logically consistent land use/cover maps for the United States. This gap is a critical barrier to conducting effective integrated assessments. This study develops novel national scenarios of housing density and impervious surface cover that are logically consistent with emissions storylines. Analysis of these scenarios suggests that combinations of climate and land u

SUBMITTER: Bierwagen BG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3000269 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature