Sentences with phrase «land cover change»
The impact of land cover change on the atmospheric circulation.
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The impact of anthropogenic land use and land cover change on regional climate extremes.
Their analysis reveals how recent land cover changes have ultimately made the planet warmer.
This is the first study to analyse land cover changes both before and after settlement establishment and occupation.
We know the causes: fossil fuel consumption, certain land cover changes, and a few other physical processes.
Also, an accuracy assessment of the existing land cover change assessment was completed.
Lawrence, Peter J., Thomas N. Chase, Investigating the Climate Impacts of Global Land Cover Change in the Community Climate System Model (CCSM 3.0), International Journal of Climatology (In Press)
Davies - Barnard T, P J Valdes, J S Singarayer, F M Pacifico and C D Jones, 2014, Quantifying the relative importance of land cover change from climate and land use in the representative concentration pathways, Environ.
Chase, T. N., Pielke, R. A.Sr, Kittel, T. G. F., Nemani, R. R. & Running, S. W. Simulated impacts of historical land cover changes on global climate in northern winter.
A new study by Virginia Tech researchers tracks land cover changes in the Chobe district of Northern Botswana and provides information that will allow governments and nonprofit organizations to improve dryland management strategies in the region.
This layer contains less overall change than the sum of 2001/2006 and 2006/2011 land cover change pixels as some transitioned through two classes from 2001 to 2006 to 2011.
The study, authored by Seran Gibbard, * Ken Caldeira, Govindasamy Bala, * Thomas J. Phillips, * and Michael Wickett, * will be published online under the title «Climate effects of global land cover change» in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on December 8, 2005.
«This study is one of the first to quantitatively examine the loss of forested areas and other land cover changes in savanna environments,» said Richard Yuretich, program director for the National Science Foundation's Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program, which funded the research.
We used a spatially explicit land cover change model [4] to reconstruct the annual rates and spatial patterns of tropical deforestation that occurred between 1950 and 2009 in the Amazon, in the Congo Basin, and across Southeast Asia.
In the new study, Rosa and her colleagues used a spatially explicit land cover change model to reconstruct the annual rates and spatial patterns of tropical deforestation from 1950 to 2009 in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.
The specific objectives included calculating the rates of land cover changes at national, departmental, and municipal scales and comparing the 2006 map to the 2001 map that was generated with the same methodology.
NLCD 2011 provides - for the first time - the capability to assess wall - to - wall, spatially explicit, national land cover changes and trends across the United States from 2001 to 2011.
The study, funded by the National Science Foundation and Forest Conservation Botswana, examined Landsat satellite data from the past 30 years to track broad land cover change in the Chobe district, a 21,000 - square - kilometer area encompassing urban, rural, communally managed, and protected land.
Since 1988, the ministry has relied on the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) to analyze land cover changes in the Amazon, which holds the world's largest intact swaths of forest.
«The implementation of these interactions could pave the way to an assessment of the role played by rapid land cover changes — such as deforestation.»
However, Helbig et al. [2017], using a set of nested paired eddy covariance flux towers in a boreal forest - wetland landscape, point to the increasing importance of warming temperatures on ecosystem respiration potentially overwhelming enhanced productivity occurring from land cover change under projected anthropogenic trends.
New field techniques that facilitate measuring recent regional disturbances [14] are a necessary first step in quantifying land cover changes and energy balance response.
The report, written by low - carbon fuels policy expert Chris Malins, blames land cover change like deforestation and the draining of peatlands for palm oil's harmful impacts.
Finds that average daytime surface temperature in the Jambi province increased by 1.05 °C over the last 16 years, which followed the trend of observed land cover changes and exceeded the effects of climate warming
One - third of Africa is threatened by desertification, and land cover changes since 2000 are responsible for half to three - quarters of the value of lost ecosystem services.
What impact did pre-industrial land cover change have on the hydrological responses?
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.
Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study
Modeled regional and global climate responses to simulated (107, 110, 111) and reconstructed historical land cover changes over the past century (112) and millennium (113) generally agree that anthropogenic deforestation drives biogeophysical cooling at higher latitudes and warming in low latitudes and suggest that biogeochemical impacts tend to exceed biogeophysical effects (113).
After the successful Sentinel - 2A launch, Dr. Garik Gutman, the NASA Land Use / Land Cover Change program manager, said, «We are looking forward to new exciting data to complement Landsat observations and to collaborative research — especially because ESA followed USGS in its open data policy.»
[Response: Very unlikely scenario — CO2 didn't vary more than a few ppm over that time period, and the amount of land cover change possible at the time (minimal) is in concert with that.
The 2011 land cover layer is one of five primary data products produced as part of the NLCD 2011: 1) NLCD 2011 Land Cover 2) NLCD 2006/2011 Land Cover Change Pixels labeled with the 2011 land cover class 3) NLCD 2011 Percent Developed Imperviousness 4) NLCD 2006/2011 Percent Developed Imperviousness Change Pixels 5) NLCD 2011 Tree Canopy Cover.
Simulating global and local surface temperature changes due to Holocene anthropogenic land cover change.
Davies - Barnard, T., P. J. Valdes, J. S. Singarayer, A. J. Wiltshire, and C. D. Jones (2015), Quantifying the relative importance of land cover change from climate and land - use in the representative concentration pathways, Global Biogeochem.