Tower, ground-based and satellite observations indicate that tropical deforestation results in
warmer, drier conditions at the local scale. Understanding the regional or global impacts of …

This paper overviews the short‐term (biophysical) and long‐term (out to around 100 year
timescales; biogeochemical and biogeographical) influences of the land surface on weather …

Biophysical effects from deforestation have the potential to amplify carbon losses but are
often neglected in carbon accounting systems. Here we use both Earth system model …

Global climate models (GCMs) of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) has
designed with new socioeconomic pathway scenarios to incorporate the socioeconomic …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

Recently a number of studies have found significant differences between Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land surface map** and the land surface …

Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate
over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments in: Journal …

Tropical and sub-tropical South America are highly susceptible to extreme droughts. Recent
events include two droughts (2005 and 2010) exceeding the 100-year return value in the …

Maps of upper-level and surface winds and of surface temperature and precipitation
illustrate the results of a sequence of global paleoclimatic simulations spanning the past …