ISIMIP2a secondary population input data

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Franziska Piontek, Tobias Geiger (2017): ISIMIP2a secondary population input data (v1.0). ISIMIP Repository. https://doi.org/10.48364/ISIMIP.953782

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.48364/ISIMIP.953782

Title:: ISIMIP2a secondary population input data

Version:: 1.0

Creators:

Franziska Piontek 0000-0003-4305-7552
Tobias Geiger 0000-0002-8059-8270

Contact person:

Jan Volkholz 0000-0002-2533-3739

For inquiries concerning this dataset, please contact info@isimip.org.

Abstract:

This dataset contains improved population data available as secondary input for ISIMIP2a (https://www.isimip.org, Schewe et al. 2019).

While national and global population in ISIMIP2 seem consistent between historical and scenario datasets, it turns out that a given country population may be distributed differently across the grid cells corresponding to the given country, causing discontinuities in the individual grid cells population time series.

To overcome this issue and obtain spatially consistent historical and scenario data, the Bclimate group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel implemented a fix. The code is available at https://github.com/VUB-HYDR/isimip2b_population_correction. See also #36.

Publication date:: Oct. 8, 2025

Publisher:: ISIMIP Repository

Contributors:

Matthias Büchner 0000-0002-1382-7424
Jochen Klar 0000-0002-5883-4273
Lisa Novak 0009-0003-5086-1079
Stefanie Heinicke 0000-0003-0222-5281
Matthias Mengel 0000-0001-6724-9685
Christian Otto 0000-0001-5500-6774
Franziska Piontek 0000-0003-4305-7552
Dánnell Quesada-Chacón 0000-0001-5700-1846
Christopher P.O. Reyer 0000-0003-1067-1492
Inga Sauer 0000-0002-9302-2131
Jacob Schewe 0000-0001-9455-4159
Jan Volkholz 0000-0002-2533-3739
Martin Park 0000-0002-2467-3256
Katja Frieler 0000-0003-4869-3013
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 03e8s1d88

Here we list the persons and organizations, who are responsible for the collection, the management, and the publication of this dataset.

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References

Schewe, J., Gosling, S.N., Reyer, C. et al. State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes. Nat Commun 10, 1005 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08745-6

Additional documentation

ISIMIP2a simulation protocol (2020) → https://www.isimip.org/protocol/2a/

Other references

Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) → https://www.isimip.org
Detailed description on isimip.org: Historical, gridded and country-level population → https://www.isimip.org/gettingstarted/input-data-bias-adjustment/details/79/
Software repository → https://github.com/VUB-HYDR/isimip2b_population_correction

GCMD Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION DENSITY
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION SIZE
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords are a hierarchical set of controlled vocabularies maintained by NASA (more information).

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