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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION COVER FACTOR ON BOUNDARY LAYER CLIMATE IN SEMI-ARID REGION 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2 
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下载免费PDF全文 A numerical model has been developed for simulating land-surface processes and atmosphericboundary layer climate of vegetation and desert in semi-arid region.Dynamically,thermal andhydrological processes take place in the atmospheric boundary layer.Vegetation and surface layerof soil are included in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere coupled system,in which,vegetation isconsidered as a horizontally uniform layer,soil is divided into 13 layers and the horizontaldifferences of variables in the system are neglected.The influence of local boundary layer climateby vegetation cover factor is simulated with the coupled model in the semi-arid region of NorthwestChina (around 38°N,105°E).Results indicate that due to significant differences of water andenergy budgets in vegetation and desert region,the air is colder and wetter over the vegetation andcorrespondingly an obvious local circulation in the lower atmosphere is formed.Simulating results also show that maximum updraft and downdraft occur around thevegetation-desert marginal area,where the dynamical and thermodynamical properties of PBL(Planetary Boundary Layer) are uncontinuous.It is stronger at daytime,weaker and reverse atnighttime.In the simulation,the moisture inversion phenomena are analyzed.Finally.theinfluences of vegetation cover factor exchange on local boundary layer climate are simulated.Thesimulating results bring to light that water may be conserved and improved by developing treeplanting and afforestation,and improving cover factor of vegetation in local ecoenvironment,andthis is an important way of transforming local climate in arid and semi-arid area.Results indicatethat the coupled model can be used to study the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction and localboundary layer climate. 相似文献
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Sibyll Schaphoff Wolfgang Lucht Dieter Gerten Stephen Sitch Wolfgang Cramer I. Colin Prentice 《Climatic change》2006,74(1-3):97-122
This study investigates commonalities and differences in projected land biosphere carbon storage among climate change projections derived from one emission scenario by five different general circulation models (GCMs). Carbon storage is studied using a global biogeochemical process model of vegetation and soil that includes dynamic treatment of changes in vegetation composition, a recently enhanced version of the Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM). Uncertainty in future terrestrial carbon storage due to differences in the climate projections is large. Changes by the end of the century range from −106 to +201 PgC, thus, even the sign of the response whether source or sink, is uncertain. Three out of five climate projections produce a land carbon source by the year 2100, one is approximately neutral and one a sink. A regional breakdown shows some robust qualitative features. Large areas of the boreal forest are shown as a future CO2 source, while a sink appears in the arctic. The sign of the response in tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems differs among models, due to the large variations in simulated precipitation patterns. The largest uncertainty is in the response of tropical rainforests of South America and Central Africa. 相似文献
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欧亚土壤湿度异常对北半球大气环流的显著影响 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1
用44 a ERA40再分析资料的土壤湿度和大气环流变量场, 研究持续性的欧亚大陆土壤湿度异常对后期北半球大尺度大气环流的反馈作用。首先,运用经验正交函数分解去除ENSO遥相关及趋势影响后,分析了欧亚大陆中高纬度土壤湿度变率主要模态的季节变化特征,及相对应主分量时间序列显示的土壤湿度异常的衰减时间,结果表明土壤湿度异常的主要模态在全年都表现出很好的连续性。其次,对不同季节的连续3个月的月平均土壤湿度和500 hPa高度场进行滞后最大协方差分析,研究欧亚地区中高纬度土壤湿度异常与北半球大气环流异常之间的线性耦合。第一最大协方差模态的结果表明:全年的主导信号是大气强迫土壤湿度的变化,但在冬季和夏季,大气中类似于负位相北极涛动的环流型与之前月份(最长达4个月)土壤湿度的持续变化显著相关。最后,基于土壤湿度变率中心的回归分析也证实了秋季和春季欧亚土壤湿度,特别是北非副热带,欧亚内陆和西伯利亚地区的土壤湿度异常,分别与其后的冬季和夏季的大气环流显著相关。欧亚大陆土壤湿度异常超前大气环流的信号,将有助于改善冬季和夏季北半球季节气候预报能力。 相似文献
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We investigate dominant processes modulating the coastal West African atmospheric boundary layer during August and September 2006. We evaluated boundary-layer attributes using upper air soundings, tower-based observations, and information from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts reanalyses. Boundary-layer thermodynamics exhibited continental and maritime attributes in response to influences from regional onshore (sea to land) flows and local land–atmosphere exchanges of energy and moisture. Onshore flows transported maritime air inland and gave rise to deep (>1 km) nighttime mixed layers whose heat and moisture content resulted in maximum virtual potential temperatures of 306 K and specific humidities up to 20 g kg−1. The presence of the Saharan Air Layer corresponded with capping inversions greater than 4 K and lapse rates exceeding 7 K km−1 above the mixed layer. Mixed layers at these times became deeper than expected (≈1 km) because dust layer events were often concurrent with strong onshore flows. Despite diurnally variable land–atmosphere fluxes of sensible and latent heat that reached maximum values of 200 and 400 W m−2, respectively, the mixed-layer depth exhibited little diurnal variation due to the influences of onshore flows. Daytime heating of the land, the upward transport of moisture, and onshore flows produced boundary layers with high convective available potential energy that often exceeded 3,000 J kg−1. These results demonstrate that the atmospheric boundary-layer thermodynamics in western Senegal can be favorable for storm development during both day and night. Mesoscale and regional models applied in this region should include several processes controlling the boundary-layer attributes to realistically estimate the energy available for storm development. 相似文献
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土壤湿度是陆面过程的重要参量,可以通过影响土壤本身的热力性质和水文过程,导致局部大气环流的改变以及区域性短期气候异常。青藏高原作为全球气候变化的敏感区,其地气间的水分与能量交换对亚洲季风和全球大气循环有着极大的影响,且高原地区的土壤水分数据能够为陆-气相互作用和数值模拟等研究提供重要的观测信息和初始输入数据。文中综述了青藏高原土壤湿度观测和研究对气候变化影响的重要性,高原土壤湿度观测站网建设现状,各种土壤湿度替代资料的适用性和评估研究,以及高原土壤湿度时空分布特征对降水的影响与气候变化响应,并提出了今后青藏高原土壤湿度研究着重解决的问题。 相似文献
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In a warming climate, atmospheric wave activity and associated weather patterns may change, although conflicting results have been reported on this topic. Additionally, atmospheric wave changes in a future climate have mainly focused on waves of a specified spatial scale, rather than a particular spatiotemporal scale. Here, changes in the variability of Rossby waves of multiple spatiotemporal scales are analyzed using the wavenumber-frequency power spectrum, a tool commonly applied to analyze atmospheric equatorial waves. Daily 500 hPa geopotential height data over 40°–60°N from historical (1950–2005) and future (2006–2099) simulations from 20 models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) under the RCP8.5 scenario were analyzed. When compared to the historical period, the late 21st century climate projections showed a decline in spectral power for both eastward and westward propagating waves with wavenumbers greater than 8 that spanned over all frequencies in all seasons, but an increase in mean power for eastward propagating waves with wavenumbers 1–7 over all frequencies was shown in winter and spring. This increase in power was accompanied by increased variance, i.e., an increased meridional extent of 500 hPa ridges and troughs, and was the result of increases in the mean number of high amplitude events and duration of activity within this wave band. These results indicate that large-scale (~ 104 km) eastward propagating weather systems may intensify with higher amplitudes for ridges and troughs, while short-scale (102–103 km) weather systems may decrease in their intensity due to reduced variability in the late 21st century under the high emissions scenario. Potential mechanisms for these changes are discussed, including enhanced Arctic warming and midlatitude-tropical interactions. 相似文献
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Noah S. Diffenbaugh 《Climate Dynamics》2005,24(2-3):237-251
In order to test the sensitivity of regional climate to regional-scale atmosphere-land cover feedbacks, we have employed a regional climate model asynchronously coupled to an equilibrium vegetation model, focusing on the western United States as a case study. CO2-induced atmosphere-land cover feedbacks resulted in statistically significant seasonal temperature changes of up to 3.5°C, with land cover change accounting for up to 60% of the total seasonal response to elevated atmospheric CO2 levels. In many areas, such as the Great Basin, albedo acted as the primary control on changes in surface temperature. Along the central coast of California, soil moisture effects magnified the temperature response in JJA and SON, with negative surface soil moisture anomalies accompanied by negative evaporation anomalies, decreasing latent heat flux and further increasing surface temperature. Additionally, negative temperature anomalies were calculated at high elevation in California and Oregon in DJF, MAM and SON, indicating that future warming of these sensitive areas could be mitigated by changes in vegetation distribution and an associated muting of winter snow-temperature feedbacks. Precipitation anomalies were almost universally not statistically significant, and very little change in mean seasonal atmospheric circulation occurred in response to atmosphere-land cover feedbacks. Further, the mean regional temperature sensitivity to regional-scale land cover feedbacks did not exceed the large-scale sensitivity calculated elsewhere, indicating that spatial heterogeneity does not introduce non-linearities in the response of regional climate to CO2-induced atmosphere-land cover feedbacks. 相似文献
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The mid-Holocene `green' Sahara represents the largest anomaly of the atmosphere-biosphere system during the last 12 000
years. Although this anomaly is attributed to precessional forcing leading to a strong enhancement of the African monsoon,
no climate model so far has been able to simulate the full extent of vegetation in the Sahara region 6000 years ago. Here
two atmospheric general circulation models (LMD 5.3 and ECHAM 3) are asynchronously coupled to an equilibrium biogeography
model to give steady-state simulations of climate and vegetation 6000 years ago, including biogeophysical feedback. The two
model results are surprisingly different, and neither is fully realistic. ECHAM shows a large northward extension of vegetation
in the western part of the Sahara only. LMD shows a much smaller and more zonal vegetation shift. These results are unaffected
by the choice of `green' or modern initial conditions. The inability of LMD to sustain a `green' Sahara 6000 years ago is
linked to the simulated strength of the tropical summer circulation. During the northern summer monsoon season, the meridional
gradient of sea-level pressure and subsidence over the western part of northern Africa are both much weaker in ECHAM than
in LMD in the present as well as the mid-Holocene. These features allow the surface moist air flux to penetrate further into
northern Africa in ECHAM than in LMD. This comparison illustrates the importance of correct simulation of atmospheric circulation
features for the sensitivity of climate models to changes in radiative forcing, particularly for regional climates where atmospheric
changes are amplified by biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks.
Received: 20 April 1999 / Accepted: 20 January 2000 相似文献
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Northern African climate at the end of the twenty-first century: an integrated application of regional and global climate models 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
A method for simulating future climate on regional space scales is developed and applied to northern Africa. Simulation with
a regional model allows for the horizontal resolution needed to resolve the region’s strong meridional gradients and the optimization
of parameterizations and land-surface model. The control simulation is constrained by reanalysis data, and realistically represents
the present day climate. Atmosphere–ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) output provides SST and lateral boundary condition
anomalies for 2081–2100 under a business-as-usual emissions scenario, and the atmospheric CO2 concentration is increased to 757 ppmv. A nine-member ensemble of future climate projections is generated by using output
from nine AOGCMs. The consistency of precipitation projections for the end of the twenty-first century is much greater for
the regional model ensemble than among the AOGCMs. More than 77% of ensemble members produce the same sign rainfall anomaly
over much of northern Africa. For West Africa, the regional model projects wetter conditions in spring, but a mid-summer drought
develops during June and July, and the heat stoke risk increases across the Sahel. Wetter conditions resume in late summer,
and the likelihood of flooding increases. The regional model generally projects wetter conditions over eastern Central Africa
in June and drying during August through September. Severe drought impacts parts of East Africa in late summer. Conditions
become wetter in October, but the enhanced rainfall does not compensate for the summertime deficit. The risk of heat stroke
increases over this region, although the threat is not projected to be as great as in the Sahel. 相似文献
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Seasonal to interannual climate predictability in mid and high northern latitudes in a global coupled model 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1
The upper limit of climate predictability in mid and high northern latitudes on seasonal to interannual time scales is investigated
by performing two perfect ensemble experiments with the global coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice model ECHAM5/MPI-OM. The ensembles
consist of six members and are initialized in January and July from different years of the model’s 300-year control integration.
The potential prognostic predictability is analyzed for a set of oceanic and atmospheric climate parameters. The predictability
of the atmospheric circulation is small except for southeastern Europe, parts of North America and the North Pacific, where
significant predictability occurs with a lead time of up to half a year. The predictability of 2 m air temperature shows a
large land–sea contrast with highest predictabilities over the sub polar North Atlantic and North Pacific. A combination of
relatively high persistence and advection of sea surface temperature anomalies into these areas leads to large predictability.
Air temperature over Europe, parts of North America and Asia shows significant predictability of up to half a year in advance.
Over the ice-covered Arctic, air temperature is not predictable at time scales exceeding 2 months. Sea ice thickness is highly
predictable in the central Arctic mainly due to persistence and in the Labrador Sea due to dynamics. Surface salinity is highly
predictable in the Arctic Ocean, northern North Atlantic and North Pacific for several years in advance. We compare the results
to the predictability due to persistence and show the importance of dynamical processes for the predictability. 相似文献
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含有动态植被过程的陆面模式Atmosphere-Vegetation Interaction Model(AVIM)与中国科学院大气物理研究所大气科学与地球流体力学数值模拟国家重点实验室(IAP/LASG)的9层大气环流模式AGCM 及20层的海洋环流模式(OGCM)耦合,建立了一个全球模式(GoALS-AVIM)并进行100年的模拟积分.后40年的结果分析表明,该耦合模式能够合理地模拟大气及陆地生态系统显著的年际变化.用奇异值分解(SVD)分析了东亚地区植被生长和气候变化的相互关系,发现在东业区域的植被净初级生产力(NPP)强弱的变化对血着大气环流的变化,特别是NPP分别与850 hPa的风场和500 hPa的高度场表现出很强的时空一致性.在东亚地区,由于植被类型的不同,导致NPP年际变化与降水、表面气温、短波辐射的年际变化的相关性不同,它们的年际变化与相关物理量场的年际变化表现出很强的植物种类的区别. 相似文献
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This study examines the role of vegetation dynamics in regional predictions of future climate change in western Africa using
a dynamic vegetation model asynchronously coupled to a regional climate model. Two experiments, one for present day and one
for future, are conducted with the linked regional climate-vegetation model, and the third with the regional climate model
standing alone that predicts future climate based on present-day vegetation. These simulations are so designed in order to
tease out the impact of structural vegetation feedback on simulated climate and hydrological processes. According to future
predictions by the regional climate-vegetation model, increase in LAI is widespread, with significant shift in vegetation
type. Over the Guinean Coast in 2084–2093, evergreen tree coverage decreases by 49% compared to 1984–1993, while drought deciduous
tree coverage increases by 56%. Over the Sahel region in the same period, grass cover increases by 31%. Such vegetation changes
are accompanied by a decrease of JJA rainfall by 2% over the Guinean Coast and an increase by 23% over the Sahel. This rather
small decrease or large increase of precipitation is largely attributable to the role of vegetation feedback. Without the
feedback effect from vegetation, the regional climate model would have predicted a 5% decrease of JJA rainfall in both the
Guinean Coast and the Sahel as a result of the radiative and physiological effects of higher atmospheric CO2 concentration. These results demonstrate that climate- and CO2-induced changes in vegetation structure modify hydrological processes and climate at magnitudes comparable to or even higher
than the radiative and physiological effects, thus evincing the importance of including vegetation feedback in future climate
predictions. 相似文献
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P. N. Svyashchennikov U. V. Prokhorova B. V. Ivanov 《Russian Meteorology and Hydrology》2020,45(1):22-28
The results of studying the temporal variability of atmospheric circulation in the Western Arctic (the Norwegian and Barents seas) are presented. The daily dataset of Girs-Vangengeim E, W, and C circulation forms for the period of 1891–2016 is used to describe atmospheric circulation. Special attention is given to the estimation of differences in weather conditions during the modern period of warming (1985–2015) and in the period of the first Arctic warming (1920–1950). For the cold (November-March) and warm (April-October) seasons, the trends in the frequency of occurrence of the circulation forms are determined. The occurrence of the number of consecutive days with the same atmospheric circulation form which can be considered as a characteristic of weather stability during the analyzed period of warming, is computed for both seasons. The prevalence of the E circulation form during the warm season is typical of both periods. The modern period of warming in the study area, as compared to the period of the first warming, is characterized by an increase in the occurrence of the C circulation form with a short duration. It is found that the current climate regime is characterized by an increase in surface air temperature against a background of less stable weather conditions. 相似文献
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Summary ?Evapotranspiration characteristics on the point-scale (several hundred square meters) and the local scale (several square
kilometers) are analysed by comparing a deterministic and a statistical – deterministic surface energy balance model. The
vegetation surface variability is represented by both the surface heterogeneity and inhomogeneity. Heterogeneity means the
mosaic of wet (wif ≠ 0) and dry (1-wif) fractions of vegetation surface, while inhomogeneity addresses small scale variations of soil moisture content.
The microscale characteristics of evapotranspiration are considered in terms of analysing evapotranspiration E
v
versus soil moisture content θ, relative frequency distribution characteristics of E
v
(θ) and the aggregation algorithms for its estimation. The analyses are performed for loam soil type under different atmospheric
forcing conditions.
The main result is as follows: For dry vegetation surface (wif = 0), the relationship between the aggregated (θagg) and the area-averaged (θ
m
) soil moisture content is nonlinear and depends on both the states of the surface and the atmospheric forcing conditions.
In the study, we assumed that there are no advective effects and mesoscale circulation patterns induced by surface discontinuities.
Based on this fact it seems unlikely to be able to construct an aggregation algorithm for calculating θagg without inclusion of the atmospheric forcing conditions. This means that it will be difficult to construct a simple formula
for calculating area-averaged transpiration, if it is possible at all.
Received May 3, 2001; revised May 31, 2002; accepted June 3, 2002 相似文献
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Stefan Hagemann Holger Göttel Daniela Jacob Philip Lorenz Erich Roeckner 《Climate Dynamics》2009,32(6):767-781
For the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the recent version of the coupled
atmosphere/ocean general circulation model (GCM) of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has been used to conduct an ensemble
of transient climate simulations These simulations comprise three control simulations for the past century covering the period
1860–2000, and nine simulations for the future climate (2001–2100) using greenhouse gas (GHG) and aerosol concentrations according
to the three IPCC scenarios B1, A1B and A2. For each scenario three simulations were performed. The global simulations were
dynamically downscaled over Europe using the regional climate model (RCM) REMO at 0.44° horizontal resolution (about 50 km),
whereas the physics packages of the GCM and RCM largely agree. The regional simulations comprise the three control simulations
(1950–2000), the three A1B simulations and one simulation for B1 as well as for A2 (2001–2100). In our study we concentrate
on the climate change signals in the hydrological cycle and the 2 m temperature by comparing the mean projected climate at
the end of the twenty-first century (2071–2100) to a control period representing current climate (1961–1990). The robustness
of the climate change signal projected by the GCM and RCM is analysed focussing on the large European catchments of Baltic
Sea (land only), Danube and Rhine. In this respect, a robust climate change signal designates a projected change that sticks
out of the noise of natural climate variability. Catchments and seasons are identified where the climate change signal in
the components of the hydrological cycle is robust, and where this signal has a larger uncertainty. Notable differences in
the robustness of the climate change signals between the GCM and RCM simulations are related to a stronger warming projected
by the GCM in the winter over the Baltic Sea catchment and in the summer over the Danube and Rhine catchments. Our results
indicate that the main explanation for these differences is that the finer resolution of the RCM leads to a better representation
of local scale processes at the surface that feed back to the atmosphere, i.e. an improved representation of the land sea
contrast and related moisture transport processes over the Baltic Sea catchment, and an improved representation of soil moisture
feedbacks to the atmosphere over the Danube and Rhine catchments. 相似文献
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利用1951～2011年中国台站观测的逐日降水、温度和美国NCEP/NCAR再分析月平均资料, 本文分析2010年秋、冬季(11月至次年2月)发生在华北地区持续性干旱的大气环流和海温异常特征, 并讨论了北极涛动(AO)和La Ni?a事件对此次干旱事件的影响。分析表明, 2010年发生在华北秋、冬季节的持续性干旱是叠加在降水减少气候趋势之上的一次极端干旱事件, 但本次极端干旱事件主要成因是受到同期较强的AO负位相和La Ni?a事件共同的影响。统计发现:AO的负位相有利于乌拉尔山阻塞高压维持和发展, 而贝加尔湖上空出现负位势高度异常, 导致东亚中高纬度经向环流加强和冷空气向南侵袭。AO负位相可导致贝加尔湖上空气压场偏低并影响冷空气的路径和强度, 进而间接地导致华北地区的干冷气候, 而同期La Ni?a的海温异常分布导致西北太平洋副热带高压偏弱偏南, 抑制了西太平洋水汽向华北地区输送, 从而直接导致该地区的干旱。由于2010年AO负指数和La Ni?a事件较历史干旱年份表现出较强和长时间持续性, 从而导致了锋面位置位于华北以南和华北本次的持续性干旱事件。 相似文献
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植被覆盖变化对区域气候影响的研究进展 总被引：31，自引：4，他引：31
陆面植被覆盖变化作为全球及区域气候变化的重要影响因素之一，在近几十年来逐渐受到科学家们的关注，特别是通过大量的数值模拟研究了不同陆面覆盖状况对大气和气候变化的影响，取得了重要进展。研究结果普遍认为，植被覆盖变化通过改变地表反照率、粗糙度和土壤湿度等地表属性，从而影响辐射平衡、水分平衡等过程，最终可以导致区域降水、环流形势及大气温度、湿度等气候变化。总结了近十年国内外的相关研究及初步成果，尤其是植被变化对中国区域气候的影响，大部分研究认为，大范围植被退化使我国地表温度升高，东亚夏季风环流减弱，降水减少，使华北干旱加剧。同时指出了研究中存在问题及今后的工作重点。 相似文献
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The Little Ice Age climate of New Zealand reconstructed from Southern Alps cirque glaciers: a synoptic type approach 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
Andrew Lorrey Nicolas Fauchereau Craig Stanton Petra Chappell Steven Phipps Andrew Mackintosh James Renwick Ian Goodwin Anthony Fowler 《Climate Dynamics》2014,42(11-12):3039-3060
Little Ice Age (LIA) austral summer temperature anomalies were derived from palaeoequilibrium line altitudes at 22 cirque glacier sites across the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Modern analog seasons with temperature anomalies akin to the LIA reconstructions were selected, and then applied in a sampling of high-resolution gridded New Zealand climate data and global reanalysis data to generate LIA climate composites at local, regional and hemispheric scales. The composite anomaly patterns assist in improving our understanding of atmospheric circulation contributions to the LIA climate state, allow an interrogation of synoptic type frequency changes for the LIA relative to present, and provide a hemispheric context of the past conditions in New Zealand. An LIA summer temperature anomaly of ?0.56 °C (±0.29 °C) for the Southern Alps based on palaeo-equilibrium lines compares well with local tree-ring reconstructions of austral summer temperature. Reconstructed geopotential height at 1,000 hPa (z1000) suggests enhanced southwesterly flow across New Zealand occurred during the LIA to generate the terrestrial temperature anomalies. The mean atmospheric circulation pattern for summer resulted from a crucial reduction of the ‘HSE’-blocking synoptic type (highs over and to the west of NZ; largely settled conditions) and increases in both the ‘T’- and ‘SW’-trough synoptic types (lows passing over NZ; enhanced southerly and southwesterly flow) relative to normal. Associated land-based temperature and precipitation anomalies suggest both colder- and wetter-than-normal conditions were a pervasive component of the base climate state across New Zealand during the LIA, as were colder-than-normal Tasman Sea surface temperatures. Proxy temperature and circulation evidence were used to corroborate the spatially heterogeneous Southern Hemisphere composite z1000 and sea surface temperature patterns generated in this study. A comparison of the composites to climate mode archetypes suggests LIA summer climate and atmospheric circulation over New Zealand was driven by increased frequency of weak El Niño-Modoki in the tropical Pacific and negative Southern Annular Mode activity. 相似文献
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Global coupled climate model simulations of twentieth and twentyfirst century climate are analyzed for changes in frost days (defined as nighttime minima less than freezing). The model simulations agree with the observed pattern for late twentieth century of a greater decrease of frost days in the west and southwest USA compared to the rest of the country, and almost no change in frost days in fall compared to relatively larger decreases in spring. Associated with general increases of nighttime minimum temperatures, in the future climate with increased greenhouse gases (GHGs) the number of frost days is fewer almost everywhere, but there are greatest decreases over the western parts of the continents. The numbers of frost days are most consistently related to sea level pressure, with more frost days occurring when high pressure dominates on the monthly time scale in association with clearer skies and lower nighttime minimum temperatures. Spatial patterns of relative changes of frost days are indicative of regional scale atmospheric circulation changes that affect nighttime minimum temperatures. Increases of soil moisture and clouds also contribute, but play secondary roles. The linkages among soil moisture, clouds, sea level pressure, and diurnal temperature range are quantified by a statistical multiple regression model. Coefficients for present and future climate are similar among the predictors, indicating physical processes that affect frost days in present and future climates do not appreciably change. Only the intercept changes in association with the significant warming of the mean climate state. This study highlights the fact that, though there is a general decrease in the number of frost days with global warming, the processes that affect the pattern of those changes, and thus the regional changes of frost days, are influenced by several interrelated physical processes, with changes in regional atmospheric circulation generally being most important. 相似文献
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This study aims to demonstrate the potential of a process-based regional ecosystem model, LPJ-GUESS, driven by climate scenarios generated by a regional climate model system (RCM) to generate predictions useful for assessing effects of climatic and CO2 change on the key ecosystem services of carbon uptake and storage. Scenarios compatible with the A2 and B2 greenhouse gas emission scenarios of the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) and with boundary conditions from two general circulation models (GCMs) – HadAM3H and ECHAM4/OPYC3 – were used in simulations to explore changes in tree species distributions, vegetation structure, productivity and ecosystem carbon stocks for the late 21st Century, thus accommodating a proportion of the GCM-based and emissions-based uncertainty in future climate development. The simulations represented in this study were of the potential natural vegetation ignoring direct anthropogenic effects. Results suggest that shifts in climatic zones may lead to changes in species distribution and community composition among seven major tree species of natural Swedish forests. All four climate scenarios were associated with an extension of the boreal forest treeline with respect to altitude and latitude. In the boreal and boreo-nemoral zones, the dominance of Norway spruce and to a lesser extent Scots pine was reduced in favour of deciduous broadleaved tree species. The model also predicted substantial increases in vegetation net primary productivity (NPP), especially in central Sweden. Expansion of forest cover and increased local biomass enhanced the net carbon sink over central and northern Sweden, despite increased carbon release through decomposition processes in the soil. In southern Sweden, reduced growing season soil moisture levels counterbalanced the positive effects of a longer growing season and increased carbon supply on NPP, with the result that many areas were converted from a sink to a source of carbon by the late 21st century. The economy-oriented A2 emission scenario would lead to higher NPP and stronger carbon sinks according to the simulations than the environment-oriented B2 scenario. 相似文献