Combined Effects of Future Urban Growth and Climate Change on Irrigation Water Demand in Central Arizona

This dataset contains the simulation results of the combined effects of future urban growth and climate change on irrigation water use in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, central Arizona. The simulation is conducted with the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model at 1-km, hourly resolution from 1981-2100 and aggregated to 30-yr average in this dataset. The 30-yr average results are compressed and organized into three files: <strong>Baseline</strong>, <strong>ICLUS2050</strong>, and <strong>ICLUS2100</strong>. The Baseline file contains results using the historical land cover map (year 2010). The <strong>ICLUS2050</strong> and <strong>ICLUS2100</strong> contain results using future land cover maps. The filename of modeling results contains the associated land cover and climate change scenario as follows: "fluxes.irri.ICLUS_<em>$YEAR</em>_<em>$LCSCE</em>.<em>$CLSCE.$GCM</em>.nc", where <em>$YEAR</em> is the year of land cover change projection (2050 or 2100), <em>$LCSCE</em> is the land cover change scenario (SSP2 or SSP5), <em>$CLSCE</em> is the climate change scenario (RCP45 or RCP85), and <em>$GCM</em> is the GCM used (eight in total) More details can be found on the associated paper (this record will be updated when the paper is published): Wang, Z., and Vivoni, E.R. 2021. Combined Effects of Future Urban Growth and Climate Change on Irrigation Water Demand in Central Arizona. <em>Journal of the American Water Resources Association (in revision)</em>.