DS-777 Annual Model-Forecasted Land-Use/Land-Cover Rasters from 2009 to 2050 for the B2 Climate Scenario for the High Plains Aquifer in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming

Estimates of area and aerial extent of land use categories are an essential component for computing the water budget of the High Plains aquifer. These raster land-use/land-cover data represent yearly simulated future land-use/land-cover for the High Plains from 2009 to 2050. These data were developed using the FOREcasting SCEnarios (FORE-SCE) of future land cover model (Sohl and others, 2007; Sohl and Sayler 2008) for two (A2 and B2) of the four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate scenarios and then processed using a Geographic Information System (GIS). The GIS software used to process these data was Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI, Inc.) ArcGIS Desktop 10.0.