Historical and projected annual vegetation carbon data for the conterminous United States used in the TCSI statistic

This data publication contains the gridded historical-modeled (1951-2000) and projected (2050-2099) mean annual total live vegetation carbon data (grams carbon per square meter) for the conterminous United States that were used to develop the Terrestrial Climate Stress Index (TCSI), as part of the 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment. Data include georeferenced TIF files containing stacked raster files with a 4 kilometer resolution grid of 1) annual historic vegetation carbon under the fire suppression model, 2) annual historic vegetation carbon under the no fire suppression model, and 3) projected vegetation carbon under a combination of five different global climate models (GCMs), two representative concentration pathways (RCPs), and 2 fire suppression scenarios (suppression and no suppression). This package also includes the tabular version of both the mean annual historic and projected vegetation carbon data for each raster grid cell.These data were used to explore the impact of climate and vegetation change on wildlife habitat for the 2020 RPA Assessment.For more information regarding the analysis of climate change on wildlife habitat using these vegetation carbon data, see Flitcroft et al. (2023).