Regional climate change in East Asia simulated by an interactive atmosphere-soil-vegetation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 557-572

  Chen, Ming ^a   Pollard, David ^b   Barron, Eric J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

COASTEL AREAS; DECIDUOUS FORESTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COUPLING; REGIONAL PATTERN; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 1642318824     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0557:RCCIEA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Bonan, G. B., 1996: A land surface model (LSM 1.0) for ecological hydrological and atmospheric studies: Technical description and user's guide. NCAR Tech. Note 417. 150 pp.
2. Bonan, G. B., D. Pollard, and S. L. Thompson, 1992: Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate. Nature, 359, 716-718.
3. Boville, B. A., and P. G. Gent, 1998: The NCAR Climate System Model, version one. J. Climate, 11, 1115-1130.
4. Briegleb, B. P, 1992: Delta-Eddington approximation for solar radiation in the NCAR Community Model. J. Geophys. Res., 97, 7603-7612.
5. Cai, Z., and M. Zhang, 1978: Analysis of excessively heavy rain between Inner Mongolia and Shanxi Province. Selected Papers on Rainstorm, Z. Baozhen, Ed., Jilin People's Press, 138-146.
6. Charney, J. G., 1975: Dynamics of deserts and droughts in Sahel. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 101, 193-202.
7. Chen, M., D. Pollard, and E. J. Barron, 2003a: Comparison of future climate change over North America simulated by two regional models, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4348, doi:10.1029/2002JD002738.
8. Chen, M., D. Pollard, and E. J. Barron, 2003b: Hydrologic processes in China and their association with summer precipitation anomalies. J. Hydrommeor., submitted.
9. Claussen, M., 1994: On coupling global biome models with climate models. Climatic Res., 4, 203-221.
10. Claussen, M., 1997: Modeling bio-geophysical feedback in the African and Indian monsoon region. Climate Dyn., 13, 247-257.
11. 2 concentrations on the climate of Amazonia. J. Climate, 13, 18-34.
12. Cramer. W., 2002: Biome models. The Earth System; Biological and Ecological Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, H. Mooney and J. Canadell, Eds., Wiley, 166-171.
13. Davies, H. C., and R. E. Turner. 1977: Updating prediction models by dynamical relaxation: An examination of the technique. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 103, 225-245.
14. Dickinson, R. E., A. Henderson-Sellers, P. J. Kennedy, and M. F. Wilson, 1986: Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) for the NCAR Community Climate Model. NCAR/TN275+STR, 69 pp.
15. Dickinson, R. E., A. Henderson-Sellers, P. J. Kennedy, and M. F. Wilson, 1993: Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) version IE as coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model. NCAR/TN-387+STR, 72 pp.
16. Dickinson, R. E., M. Shaikh, R. Bryant, and L. Graumlich, 1998: Interactive canopies for a climate model. J. Climate, 11, 2823-2836.
17. Ding, Y., 1994: Monsoons over China. Kluwer Academic, 419 pp.
18. Dudhia, J., 1989: Numerical study of convection observed during the winter monsoon experiment using a mesoscale two-dimensional model. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 3077-3107.
19. Ferranti, L., J. M. Slingo, T. N. Palmer, and B. J. Hoskins, 1999: The effects of land-surface feedbacks on monsoon circulation. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 125, 1527-1550.
20. Foley, J. A., S. Levis, I. C. Prentice, D. Pollard, and S. L. Thompson, 1998: Coupling dynamic models of climate and vegetation. Global Change Biol., 4, 561-579.
21. Fu, C. B., and G. Wen, 1999: Variation of ecosystem over East Asia in association with seasonal interannual and decadal monsoon climate variability. Climatic Change, 43, 477-494.
22. Grell, G. A., J. Dudhia, and D. R. Stauffer, 1994: A description of the fifth-generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5). NCAR/TN-398+STR. 117 pp.
23. Haxeltine, A., and I. C. Prentice, 1996: BIOME3: An equilibrium terrestrial biosphere model based on ecophysiological constraints. resource availability and competition among plant functional types. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 10, 693-709.
24. Hoffmann, W. A., and R. B. Jackson, 2000: Vegetation-climate feedbacks in the conversion of tropical savanna to grassland. J. Climate, 13, 1593-1602.
25. Hong, S. Y., and H. L. Pan, 1996: Non-local boundary layer vertical diffusion in a medium-range forecast model. Mon. Wen. Rev., 124, 2322-2339.
26. Kalnay, E., and Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-471.
27. Kaplan, J. O., 2001: Geophysical applications of vegetation modeling. Ph.D. thesis. Lund University, 114 pp.
28. Lean, J., and P. R. Rowntree, 1997: Understanding the sensitivity of a GCM simulation of Amazonian deforestation to the specification of vegetation and soil characteristics. J. Climate, 10, 1216-1235.
29. Leemans, R., and W. Cramer, 1991: The IIASA climate database for mean monthly values of temperature, precipitation and cloudiness of a global terrestrial grid. IIASA Research Rep. RR-9118, 61 pp.
30. Lu, L., R. A. Pielke, and G. L. Liston, 2001: Implementation of a two-way interactive atmospheric and ecological model and its application to the central United States. J. Climate, 14, 900-919.
31. Meehl, G. A., 1994: Influence of land surface in the Asian summer monsoon: External condition versus internal feedbacks. J. Climate, 7, 1033-1048.
32. New, M., M. Hulke, and P. Jones, 1999: Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability. Part I: Development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology. J. Climate, 12, 829-856.
33. Ni, J., 2001: Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: Estimates at different spatial resolution and their response to climate change. Climatic Change, 49, 339-358.
34. Pollard, D., and S. L. Thompson, 1995: Use of a land surface transfer scheme (LSX) in a global climate model: The response to doubling stomatal resistence. Global Planet. Change, 10, 129-161.
35. Pollard, D., and J. C. Bergengren, L. M. Stillwell-Soller, B. J. Felzer, and S. L. Thompson, 1998: Climate simulations for 10000 and 6000 years BP using the GENESIS global climate model. Paleoclimates, 2, 183-218.
36. Shukla, J., and Y. Mintz, 1982: Influence of land-surface evaporation on earth's climate. Science, 214, 1498-1501.
37. Tao, S. Y., 1979: Heavy Rainfall in China. Science and Technology Press, 578 pp.
38. Texier, D., and Coauthors, 1997: Quantifying the role of biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks in climate change: Coupled model simulations for 6000 BP and comparisons with palaeodata for northern Eurasia and northern Africa. Climate Dyn., 13, 865-882.
39. 2, from the GENESIS version 2 global climate model. J. Climate, 10, 871-900.
40. Trenberth, K., 1999: Atmospheric moisture recycling: Role of advection and local evaporation. J. Climate, 12, 1368-1381.
41. Tsvetsinskaya, E. A., and L. O. Mearns, 2001: Investigating the effects of seasonal plant growth and development in three-dimensional atmospheric circulation. Part I: Simulation of surface fluxes over growing season. J. Climate, 14, 692-709.
42. Wang, G. L., and E. A. B. Eltahir, 2000a: Biosphere-atmosphere interactions over West Africa. I: Development and validation of a coupled dynamic model. Quarr. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 126, 1239-1260.
43. Wang, G. L., and E. A. B. Eltahir, 2001b: Biosphere-atmosphere interactions over West Africa. II: Multiple climate equilibria. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 126, 1261-1280.
44. Webster, P. J., and S. Yang, 1983: Mechanisms of monsoon low-frequency variability: Surface hydrological effects. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 2110-2124.
45. Xie, P., and P. A. Arkin, 1996: Analyses of global monthly precipitation using gauge observations, satellite estimates, and numerical model predictions. J. Climate, 9, 840-858.
46. Zeng, N., and J. D. Neelin, 2000: The role of vegetation-climate interaction and interannual variability in shaping the African savanna. J. Climate, 13, 2665-2670.