Historical Land-Cover Change Impacts on Climate: Comparative Assessment of LUCID and CMIP5 Multimodel Experiments

Lejeune, Quentin; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Davin, Edouard L. (2017). Historical Land-Cover Change Impacts on Climate: Comparative Assessment of LUCID and CMIP5 Multimodel Experiments. Journal of Climate, 30(4), pp. 1439-1459. American Meteorological Society 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0213.1

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During the industrial period, many regions experienced a reduction in forest cover and an expansion of agricultural areas, in particular North America, northern Eurasia, and South Asia. Here, results from the Land-Use and Climate, Identification of Robust Impacts (LUCID) and CMIP5 model intercomparison projects are compared in order to investigate how land-cover changes (LCC) in these regions have locally impacted the biophysical land surface properties, like albedo and evapotranspiration, and how this has affected seasonal mean temperature as well as its diurnal cycle. The impact of LCC is extracted from climate simulations, including all historical forcings, using a method that is shown to capture well the sign and the seasonal cycle of the impacts diagnosed from single-forcing experiments in most cases.

The model comparison reveals that both the LUCID and CMIP5 models agree on the albedo-induced reduction of mean winter temperatures over midlatitudes. In contrast, there is less agreement concerning the response of the latent heat flux and, subsequently, mean temperature during summer, when evaporative cooling plays a more important role. Overall, a majority of models exhibit a local warming effect of LCC during this season, contrasting with results from the LUCID studies. A striking result is that none of the analyzed models reproduce well the changes in the diurnal cycle identified in present-day observations of the effect of deforestation. However, overall the CMIP5 models better simulate the observed summer daytime warming effect compared to the LUCID models, as well as the winter nighttime cooling effect.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

UniBE Contributor:

Davin, Édouard Léopold

ISSN:

0894-8755

Publisher:

American Meteorological Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

�douard Léopold Davin

Date Deposited:

26 Apr 2022 11:37

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:14

Publisher DOI:

10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0213.1

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/167132

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/167132

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