Abstract

Hawaiian Landscape Model
Track: Climate Change and Conservation
Authors: Joseph Koeller

A model was developed for county planners to use to identify optimal locations for agricultural and environmental landscape planning and development. The production of the Hawaiian Landscape Model involves simulation changes in precipitation and temperature on the island to determine what effect these variables have on the variables of vegetation and groundwater hydrology. The variables of temperature and precipitation were chosen as inputs to the landscape model because they are used in numerous different climate change models. The resulting agricultural and environmental landscape scenarios from the precipitation and temperature inputs identify optimal locations for agricultural and environmental landscape planning and development.