Mediterranean California’s water use future based on scenarios of land use change 1992-2062

This dataset contains csv files in support of the conclusions published in "Water use demand in Mediterranean California under multiple scenarios of developed and agricultural land use " in the journal PLOS One. We used the USGS's LUCAS model to examine a broad suite of spatially explicit future land use scenarios and their associated county-level water use demand, including the historical (1992-2011) and projected periods (2012-2062) across 40 Monte Carlo simulations.We examined a range of potential water demand futures sampled from a 20-year record of historical (1992-2012) data to develop a suite of potential future land change scenarios from 2012-2062. These scenario simulations include a 1) business-as-usual (BAU), 2) low agriculture (LA), 3) high agriculture (HU), 4) low urban (LU), 5) high urban (HU), 6) lowest of the low (LL), and 7) highest of the high (HH) anthropogenic use scenarios.

本数据集包含用于支撑发表于《PLOS ONE》期刊的论文《Water use demand in Mediterranean California under multiple scenarios of developed and agricultural land use》结论的逗号分隔值（CSV）文件。本研究采用美国地质调查局（USGS）的LUCAS模型，对多组空间显式的未来土地利用情景及其对应的县级尺度需水需求展开分析，分析时段涵盖历史时期（1992-2011年）与预测时期（2012-2062年），共计完成40次蒙特卡洛模拟。本研究以1992-2012年的20年历史数据记录为样本，构建了2012-2062年的一系列潜在未来土地变化情景，并对多组潜在未来需水情景进行了分析。本次情景模拟共包含7类人类活动用水情景：1）常规发展情景（business-as-usual, BAU），2）低农业发展情景（low agriculture, LA），3）高农业发展情景（high agriculture, HU），4）低城市发展情景（low urban, LU），5）高城市发展情景（high urban, HU），6）极低人类活动情景（lowest of the low, LL），7）极高人类活动情景（highest of the high, HH）。