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How to download HYDE data  

Available historical data series are: 
HYDE version 3.1 (5' resolution):

• Gridded population (total, urban and rural counts, densities and areas) from 10 000 B.C. - 2005 A.D.;
• Gridded cropland and pasture land use from 10 000 B.C. - 2005 A.D.         

Please fill in the data downloadform , then you will be transferred to the data.

Suggested citation:

Short:
Klein Goldewijk et al. (2010a,b)

Full:
Klein Goldewijk, K. , A. Beusen, M. de Vos and G. van Drecht (2010). The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human induced land use change over the past 12,000 years, Global Ecology and Biogeography, in press.

Klein Goldewijk, K. , A. Beusen, and P. Janssen (2010). Long term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way, HYDE 3 .1. The Holocene 20(4):565-573. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683609356587

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The former HYDE version 2.0 (30' resolution) is no longer available for download. Please contact Kees Klein Goldewijk for information.