Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities

RM Bright, K Zhao, RB Jackson… - Global Change …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
By altering fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture exchanges between the land surface
and atmosphere, forestry and other land‐use activities affect climate. Although long …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022‏ - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Land radiative management as contributor to regional-scale climate adaptation and mitigation

SI Seneviratne, SJ Phipps, AJ Pitman, AL Hirsch… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Greenhouse gas emissions urgently need to be reduced. Even with a step up in mitigation,
the goal of limiting global temperature rise to well below 2° C remains challenging …

UKESM1: Description and evaluation of the UK Earth System Model

AA Sellar, CG Jones, JP Mulcahy… - Journal of Advances …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
We document the development of the first version of the UK Earth System Model UKESM1.
The model represents a major advance on its predecessor HadGEM2‐ES, with …

The mark of vegetation change on Earth's surface energy balance

G Duveiller, J Hooker, A Cescatti - Nature communications, 2018‏ - nature.com
Changing vegetation cover alters the radiative and non-radiative properties of the surface.
The result of competing biophysical processes on Earth's surface energy balance varies …

Local cooling and warming effects of forests based on satellite observations

Y Li, M Zhao, S Motesharrei, Q Mu, E Kalnay… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
The biophysical effects of forests on climate have been extensively studied with climate
models. However, models cannot accurately reproduce local climate effects due to their …

Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

RM Bright, E Davin, T O'Halloran, J Pongratz… - Nature Climate …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Following a land cover and land management change (LCMC), local surface temperature
responds to both a change in available energy and a change in the way energy is …

Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth

G Forzieri, R Alkama, DG Miralles, A Cescatti - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Changes in vegetation cover associated with the observed greening may affect several
biophysical processes, whose net effects on climate are unclear. We analyzed remotely …

Near-term climate change: projections and predictability

B Kirtman, SB Power, AJ Adedoyin, GJ Boer, R Bojariu… - 2013‏ - pure.iiasa.ac.at
This chapter assesses the scientific literature describing expectations for near-term climate
(present through mid-century). Unless otherwise stated," near-term" change and the …

The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6: rationale and experimental design

DM Lawrence, GC Hurtt, A Arneth… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016‏ - gmd.copernicus.org
Human land-use activities have resulted in large changes to the Earth's surface, with
resulting implications for climate. In the future, land-use activities are likely to expand and …