Land use/cover change impacts in CMIP5 climate simulations: A new methodology and 21st century challenges

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6337-6353

  Kumar, Sanjiv ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a,b   Merwade, Venkatesh ^c   Delsole, Timothy ^a,b   Adams, Jennifer M ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^c  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate Change; CMIP5; Land Use Cover Change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SURROUNDING REGIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AFRICA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84880861289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50463     Document Type: Article

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