Impacts of Land Use/Land Cover Change on Climate and Future Research Priorities
Author(s) -
Rezaul Mahmood,
Roger A. Pielke,
Kenneth G. Hubbard,
Dev Niyogi,
Gordon B. Bonan,
Peter Lawrence,
Richard T. McNider,
Clive McAlpine,
Andrés Etter,
S. Gameda,
Budong Qian,
Andrew M. Carleton,
Adriana BeltránPrzekurat,
Thomas N. Chase,
Arturo I. Quintanar,
Jimmy Adegoke,
Sajith Vezhapparambu,
Glen Conner,
S. Asefi,
Elif Sertel,
David R. Legates,
Yuling Wu,
Robert C. Hale,
Oliver W. Frauenfeld,
Anthony Watts,
J. Marshall Shepherd,
Chandana Mitra,
Valentine Anantharaj,
Souleymane Fall,
Robert Lund,
Anna M. Treviño,
Peter D. Blanken,
Jinyang Du,
Hsin-I Chang,
Ronald D. Leeper,
U. S. Nair,
Scott Dobler,
Ravinesh C. Deo,
Jozef Syktus
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bulletin of the american meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.367
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1520-0477
pISSN - 0003-0007
DOI - 10.1175/2009bams2769.1
Subject(s) - climate change , land cover , environmental science , land use , cover (algebra) , environmental resource management , land use, land use change and forestry , environmental planning , climatology , geography , geology , oceanography , ecology , engineering , biology , mechanical engineering
Several recommendations have been proposed for detecting land use and land cover change (LULCC) on the environment from, observed climatic records and to modeling to improve its understanding and its impacts on climate. Researchers need to detect LULCCs accurately at appropriate scales within a specified time period to better understand their impacts on climate and provide improved estimates of future climate. The US Climate Reference Network (USCRN) can be helpful in monitoring impacts of LULCC on near-surface atmospheric conditions, including temperature. The USCRN measures temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, and ground or skin temperature. It is recommended that the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and other climate monitoring agencies develop plans and seek funds to address any monitoring biases that are identified and for which detailed analyses have not been completed
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