To provide a data set that allows users to understand how climate change impacts on water availability, crop productivity, and pasturelands (where no cropping occurs), coupled with sea-level rise, storm surge and flooding, may affect the future population distribution and climate-related internal migration in West Africa and the Lake Victoria Basin.

To provide data characterizing 67 years (1948-2014) of anomalous freshwater surpluses, deficits, and the parameters determining them, across the global terrestrial surface.

To provide data on changes in freshwater availability in order to better understand impacts on regional food supplies, human and ecosystem health, energy generation, and social unrest.

To provide context for the population count and density rasters, and explicit information on the spatial precision of the input boundary data.

To provide pixel-level land and water surface area estimates.

To provide data on the extent of croplands for research on human-environment interactions.

To provide data that can assist in the extraction and analysis of chlorophyll-a concentration and trends from global grids.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global flood hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global drought hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global drought hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global drought mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global flood hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global flood mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global drought hazard.

To preserve access to the original climate and land cover data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original ecosystems data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original biodiversity data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original set of socioeconomic and natural resource scenarios used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.