| The Relative Impact of Regional Scale Land Cover Change and Increasing CO_2 over China |
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| 作者姓名： | Andrew J.PITMAN |
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| 作者单位： | Department of |
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| 摘 要： | A series of 17-yr equilibrium simulations using the NCAR CCM3 (T42 resolution) were performed to investigate the regional scale impacts of land cover change and increasing CO2 over China. Simulations with natural and current land cover at CO2 levels of 280, 355, 430, and 505 ppmv were conducted. Results show statistically significant changes in major climate fields (e.g. temperature and surface wind speed) on a 15-yr average following
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The Relative Impact of Regional Scale Land Cover Change and Increasing CO_2 over China |
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| Andrew J.PITMAN.The Relative Impact of Regional Scale Land Cover Change and Increasing CO_2 over China[J].Advances in Atmospheric Sciences,2005(1). |
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| Authors: | Mei ZHAO and Andrew J PITMANCOLA Powder Mill Rd Suite Calverton MD USA |
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| Institution: | Mei ZHAO and Andrew J. PITMANCOLA,4041 Powder Mill Rd.,Suite 302,Calverton,MD 20705,USA Department of Physical Geography,Macquarie University,NSW,2109,Australia |
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| Abstract: | A series of 17-yr equilibrium simulations using the NCAR CCM3 (T42 resolution) were performed to investigate the regional scale impacts of land cover change and increasing CO2 over China. Simulations with natural and current land cover at CO2 levels of 280, 355, 430, and 505 ppmv were conducted. Results show statistically significant changes in major climate fields (e.g. temperature and surface wind speed) on a 15-yr average following land cover change. We also found increases in the maximum temperature and in the diurnal temperature range due to land cover change. Increases in CO2 affect both the maximum and minimum temperature so that changes in the diurnal range are small. Both land cover change and CO2 change also impact the frequency distribution of precipitation with increasing CO2 tending to lead to more intense precipitation and land cover change leading to less intense precipitation-indeed, the impact of land cover change typically had the opposite effect versus the impacts of CO2 Our results provide support for the inclusion of future land cover change scenarios in long-term transitory climate modelling experiments of the 21st Century. Our results also support the inclusion of land surface models that can represent future land cover changes resulting from an ecological response to natural climate variability or increasing CO2. Overall, we show that land cover change can have a significant impact on the regional scale climate of China, and that regionally, this impact is of a similar magnitude to increases in CO2 of up to about 430 ppmv. This means that that the impact of land cover change must be accounted for in detection and attribution studies over China. |
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| Keywords: | land cover change CO_2 level surface air temperature intensity of precipitation return value |
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