Land-Use Change and Future Water Demand in California’s Central Coast - Data Release (2020)

This dataset contains scenario based model projections (2001-2100) of land use related water demand for the California Central Coast in support of the published manuscript "Land-Use Change and Future Water Demand in California’s Central Coast" in the journal Land (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/9/322). We used a modified version of the USGS's LUCAS model to examine two future scenarios of future land use and associated water use demand, from 2001 to 2100 across 10 Monte Carlo simulations. We examined a range of potential water demand futures sampled from a 24-year record of historical (1992-2016) data to develop two future land change scenarios including a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario which sampled from the full historical land [...]