Chambers, S.N., Duniway, M.C., and Knight, A.C., 2021, Pygmy Rabbit Habitat Probability Within Wind MCF.
Summary
This is a 16-class categorical raster that displays the intersection of multi-year mean capacity factors (MCF) for wind (Maclaurin et al. 2019) and the pygmy rabbit habitat probability raster (Smith et al. 2019). We have divided each source continuous raster into four classes, and then intersected those two 4-class rasters to create a new raster that classifies most areas in the Intermountain West into joined wind system development and pygmy rabbit habitat probability (four quantiles for wind MCF and <0.3167, 0.3167-0.4661, 0.4661-0.67073, and >0.67073 for habitat probability; 16 classes). For more information and further renewable data, please see: https://maps.nrel.gov/. Maclaurin, G, Grue, N., Lopez, A., Heimiller, D. 2019. The [...]
Summary
This is a 16-class categorical raster that displays the intersection of multi-year mean capacity factors (MCF) for wind (Maclaurin et al. 2019) and the pygmy rabbit habitat probability raster (Smith et al. 2019). We have divided each source continuous raster into four classes, and then intersected those two 4-class rasters to create a new raster that classifies most areas in the Intermountain West into joined wind system development and pygmy rabbit habitat probability (four quantiles for wind MCF and <0.3167, 0.3167-0.4661, 0.4661-0.67073, and >0.67073 for habitat probability; 16 classes).
For more information and further renewable data, please see:
https://maps.nrel.gov/.
Maclaurin, G, Grue, N., Lopez, A., Heimiller, D. 2019. The Renewable Energy Potential (reV) Model: A Geospatial Platform for Technical Potential and Supply Curve Modeling. NREL/TP-6A20-73067.
For details on the pygmy rabbit habitat models, please see:
Smith, I. T., J. L. Rachlow, L. K. Svancara, L. A. McMahon, and S. J. Knetter. 2019. Habitat specialists as conservation umbrellas: Do areas managed for greater sage-grouse also protect pygmy rabbits? Ecosphere 10(8):e02827. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2827
The purpose of this dataset is to represent the matrix of wind energy mean capacity factor and pygmy rabbit habitat in the Intermountain West of the United States. This dataset was developed to support use of this layer in Smart Energy web tools.
