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Quantifying the impact of future land‐use changes against increases in GHG concentrations
Author(s) -
Voldoire A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2005gl024354
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , environmental science , general circulation model , climate change , atmospheric sciences , climatology , vegetation (pathology) , climate model , land cover , land use, land use change and forestry , land use , atmospheric circulation , geology , medicine , oceanography , civil engineering , pathology , engineering
The impact on atmospheric climate of future land‐use changes relative to the increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations is assessed in time‐slice simulations with the ARPEGE‐Climat atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM). Future land cover maps are provided by the IMAGE2.2 integrated model, developed by RIVM. We show that the relative impact of vegetation change to GHG concentration increase is of the order of 10% for a B2 scenario, and can reach 30% over localized tropical regions.