Hawaii Land Use Change and Carbon Budget Model Data

Model outputs from a state-and-transition simulation model integrated with a carbon budget model for the state of Hawaii, USA. It was created by Colin J. Daniel and published in 2020. The model projects changes in land use and terrestrial carbon pools and fluxes over a 50-year period.

Use Cases

• Analyze projected changes in terrestrial carbon pools in response to land-use/land-cover transitions over 50 years.
• Simulate spatial and temporal distributions of carbon fluxes triggered by discrete landscape transitions.
• Integrate discrete state-and-transition models with continuous stock-flow models for landscape dynamics forecasting.
• Characterize uncertainties in projections of landscape change using a Monte Carlo stochastic simulation approach.

Strengths

• Model outputs project landscape dynamics over a 50-year future horizon.
• Integrates both discrete state variables (land use) and continuous state variables (carbon stocks).
• Spatially-explicit model applied to the state of Hawaii, USA.

Limitations

• Model outputs are simulated projections, not observed empirical measurements.
• The dataset's specific file formats, size, and internal structure are unknown.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single region (Hawaii).

Provenance

Source

Colin J. Daniel via Dryad.

Collection Method

Generated by a state-and-transition simulation model with stocks and flows (STSM-SF) for landscape and carbon budget modeling.

Time Range

Projections cover a 50-year future period.

Freshness

Last updated in 2020.

Geography

State of Hawaii, USA.