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Climate and land-use change are major components of global environmental change with feedbacks between these components. The consequences of these interactions show that land use may exacerbate or alleviate climate change effects. Based on these findings it is important to use land-use scenarios that are consistent with the specific assumptions underlying climate-change scenarios. The Integrated Climate and Land-Use Scenarios (ICLUS) project developed land-use outputs that are based on a downscaled version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) social, economic, and demographic storylines. ICLUS outputs are derived from a pair of models. A demographic model generates county-level population estimates that are distributed by a spatial allocation model (SERGoM v3) as housing density across the landscape. Land-use outputs were developed for the four main SRES storylines and a baseline ("base case"). The model is run for the conterminous USA and output is available for each scenario by decade to 2100. In addition to housing density at a 1 hectare spatial resolution, this project also generated estimates of impervious surface at a resolution of 1 square kilometer.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
	0	The URL providing direct access to the downloadable dataset.	https://www.epa.gov/iclus/iclus-downloads
	0	The endpoint of a web service to access the dataset (REST endpoint, WMS GetCapabilities URL, or a SOAP WSDL endpoint).	https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/
	0	URL for accessing related documents such as data dictionary, technical information about a dataset, developer documentation, etc.	https://www.epa.gov/iclus/about-iclus
	0	Alternative landing page used to redirect user to a contextual, Agency-hosted âhomepageâ for the Dataset or API	https://www.epa.gov/iclus

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ICLUS v1.3 Estimated Percent Impervious Surface for the Conterminous USA

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