To assess relative levels of economic activity in the coastal zone of West Africa.

To measure human security and sensitivity of populations to climate stressors in the coastal zone of West Africa.

To provide raster representations of global summer daytime maximum and nighttime minimum surface temperature for studies related to human health and climate change.

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 provide data that can be used in global mangrove forest distribution modeling, land cover change analysis, global carbon accounting studies and to assist with policy-making in regards to human-environment interactions and future adaptive strategies.

To provide a gridded data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide gridded GDP data on country-level downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide gridded emissions data that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of the environment.