Population scenario to use as an input to run_fredi() and run_fredi_sv()

A dataframe containing a population scenario to be passed as an input to run_fredi() and run_fredi_sv().

Usage

popScenario

Format

A data frame with 14,259 rows and 5 columns:

year

Year

region

Region of U.S. ("Midwest", "Northeast", "Northern Plains", "Northwest", "Southeast", "Southern Plains", and "Southwest")

state

One of 48 contiguous U.S. states or the District of Columbia

postal

Postal code abbreviation associated with the state

state_pop

State population for associated region and year

Source

https://epa.gov/cira/FrEDI/

Details

This dataframe contains population projections at the state level from the Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios version 2 (ICLUSv2) model (Bierwagen et al, 2010; EPA 2017) under the Median variant projection of United Nations (2015).

Bierwagen, B., D. M. Theobald, C. R. Pyke, A. Choate, P. Groth, J. V. Thomas, and P. Morefield. 2010. “National housing and impervious surface scenarios for integrated climate impact assessments.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107 (49): 20887–20892. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1002096107.

EPA. 2017. Multi-Model Framework for Quantitative Sectoral Impacts Analysis: A technical report for the Fourth National Climate Assessment. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 430-R-17-001.

United Nations. 2015. World population prospects: The 2015 revision. New York: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.