Simulated impacts of land cover change on summer climate in the Tibetan Plateau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15549577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qian Li (0000-0003-1286-8539, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, corresponding author), Yongkang Xue (0000-0002-6169-9631, University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 015102-015102 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/015102 |
| OpenAlex | W2023642877 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a key region of land–atmosphere interactions with severe eco-environment degradation. This study uses an atmospheric general circulation model, NCEP GCM/SSiB, to present the major TP summer climate features for six selected ENSO years and preliminarily assess the possible impact of land cover change on the summer circulation over the TP. Compared to Reanalysis II data, the GCM using satellite derived vegetation properties generally reproduces the main 6-year-mean TP summer circulation features despite some discrepancies in intensity and geographic locations of some climate features. Two existing vegetation maps with very different land cover conditions over the TP, one with bare ground and one with vegetation cover, derived from satellite derived data, are tested and produce clearer climate signals due to land cover change
Atmosphere (unit · Climate change · Climatology · GCM transcription factors · General Circulation Model · Geography · Land cover · Land use · Meteorology · Plateau (mathematics · Satellite · Vegetation (pathology · Vegetation cover · Climate variability and models · Cryospheric studies and observations · Environmental Science · Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations · Ecology · Geology
| Highly cited | No |
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