title: High-resolution African population projections from radiative forcing and socio-economic models, 2000 to 2100.
abstract: For its fifth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change divided future scenario projections (2005-2100) into two groups: Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs) and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). Each SSP has country-level urban and rural population projections, while the RCPs are based on radiative forcing caused by greenhouse gases, aerosols and associated land-use change. In order for these projections to be applicable in earth system models, SSP and RCP population projections must be at the same spatial scale. Thus, a gridded population dataset that takes into account both RCP-based urban fractions and SSP-based population projection is needed. To support this need, an annual (2000-2100) high resolution (approximately 1km at the equator) gridded population dataset conforming to both RCPs (urban land use) and SSPs (population) country level scenario data were created.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Niklas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Boke-Olén
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Abdulhakim M
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6486-8747
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Abdi
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sölvegatan 10, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ola
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.|Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape research (WSL), Zürcherstr. 11, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Veiko
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lehsten
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D057231:Climate Change; D006801:Humans; D018803:Models, Economic; D000069457:Population Forecast; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors