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Population density dataset #135
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WorldPop/FuturePop grant - supported by https://wellcome.org/
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From: Felipe Colon Gonzalez @wellcome.org Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 10:26 AM To: Joy Shumake-Guillemot @wmo.int; Andrew Tatem @soton.ac.uk; Laurence Hawker @bristol.ac.uk Cc: Donna James @wellcome.org Subject: [Introduction] Introducing the FuturePop/WorldPop team Dear Joy, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to introduce you to the PIs of our WorldPop/FuturePop grant. They've been awarded some funds to develop a new gridded dataset of global population projections for all SSP scenarios at a high spatial resolution. Moreover, they will disaggregate those estimates by age brackets and sex something that has not been attempted before. WorldPop has also been awarded some funds to support the main data assets of spatiotemporal data they host and that are highly relevant to the C&H community. We believe that by putting your team and theirs in touch you could collaborate in meaningful ways to strengthen the C&H field. We hope this connection leads to effective and long-standing collaborations. I will leave it to Andy and Laurence to tell you more about the great work they do. Best wishes, Felipe Dr. Felipe Colón (He/Him/His) (/fɛˈli pɛ/, [feˈli.pe] /, phe lee peh) Technology Lead Data for Science and Health Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building 215 Euston Road, NW1 2BE, UK E: [firstInitial.lastName@wellcome.org]I am in contact with the Future Pop/World Pop team and they are keen to meet, which I will set up this week (with a Doodle). Some additional info from them:
Our original project timeline had a target of Q2 2026 for a release in Africa which would then be rolled out to the global by the end of 2026.
However, an 'alpha' version of FuturePop population counts already exists for the globe and I would expect a good 'beta' standard product to be available by the end of this year. Age/sex disaggregated maps would lag around 6 months behind these.
It would be great to have a call to find out requirements. For instance if a particular region is of most interest we can focus on that (but I assume you need global).
We are very keen to be involved and hope we can come to some sort of agreement to provide you with what you need.
Reacted by Paul J. DurackOn historical population density dataset, we have been approached by Fang Li for the possiblity of sharing the HYDE3.4 dataset that she processed for the CESM model.
Dear Paul and Vaishali, I am writing as the fire model developer of CESM and co-chair of CMIP7 FireMIP. I noticed that the CMIP7 population density forcing is currently marked as TBD. As population density is a crucial input for ESM fire modeling, I would like to share a relevant dataset I recently developed. This is a global 0.5-degree annual population density dataset spanning 1850-2023, derived from HYDE3.4 population data (decadal before 1950 and annual for 1950-2023). The dataset will serve as forcing data for CESM3 (https://github.com/ESCOMP/CTSM/issues/2701#issuecomment-2635071041). I would be happy to provide this dataset if it would be useful for CMIP7. Best regards, Fang ________________________________________ Fang Li (she, her, hers) Professor (Full), International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences (ICCES) Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Office 406, Building 3, No 81 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China Phone: +86-10-82995282Reacted by Paul J. Durack- locked and limited conversation to collaborators
on Feb 19, 2025
Some groups need population information apparently. From the discussion here (not public link, sorry, but all the info is now here):