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A Sensitivity Study Of The Impact Of Dynamic Vegetation On Simulated Future Climate Change Over Southern Europe And The Mediterranean, Clement Alo, Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
A Sensitivity Study Of The Impact Of Dynamic Vegetation On Simulated Future Climate Change Over Southern Europe And The Mediterranean, Clement Alo, Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
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Recent projections of climate change from general circulation and regional climate models over southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin show strong warming and pronounced decrease in precipitation over large portion of the region, especially in the summer. While the role of vegetation in modulating the region's climate is widely recognized, most, if not all, of these climate change projections do not account for the response of the dynamic biosphere to the potential climate changes. In this study we investigate the role of climate–vegetation interactions in a regional climate model (RegCM3) linked to a dynamic vegetation model (CLM-DGVM). High spatial resolution …
Role Of Dynamic Vegetation In Regional Climate Predictions Over Western Africa, Clement Alo, Guiling Wang
Role Of Dynamic Vegetation In Regional Climate Predictions Over Western Africa, Clement Alo, Guiling Wang
Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This study examines the role of vegetation dynamics in regional predictions of future climate change in western Africa using a dynamic vegetation model asynchronously coupled to a regional climate model. Two experiments, one for present day and one for future, are conducted with the linked regional climate-vegetation model, and the third with the regional climate model standing alone that predicts future climate based on present-day vegetation. These simulations are so designed in order to tease out the impact of structural vegetation feedback on simulated climate and hydrological processes. According to future predictions by the regional climatevegetation model, increase in LAI …