Land Surface Climate in the Regional Arctic System Model

INTEGRATED REGIONAL CHANGES IN ARCTIC CLIMATE FEEDBACKS: Implications for the Global Climate System∗

A. David McGuire, F.S. Chapin III, John E. Walsh, and Christian Wirth 1U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, 2Institute of Arctic Biology, 3International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775; email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 4Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena 07745, Germa...

Impact of Agricultural Practice on Regional Climate in a Coupled Land Surface Mesoscale Model

Land-Use/Convection/Regional Climate

This paper reviews the cumulative effect of land-cover change on local, regional, and global weather and climate. Documented land-cover changes from 1700 to the present are shown to be particularly significant in the tropics. Model results are presented which show the teleconnection of weather patterns worldwide result from these landscape changes.

Nikinmaa assessment of land - cover data for land - surface modelling in regional climate studies

We studied the land-cover data used by the regional climate model REMO and the land surface model JSBACH, for Finland and surrounding areas. To date, the land-cover data determining REMO’s surface parameterisations have originated from the Global Ecosystem classification of the Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC-GEC) database. The same database has also been used as basis for prescribed pl...

The Land Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model Coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model*

The land surface parameterization used with the community climate model (CCM3) and the climate system model (CSM1), the National Center for Atmospheric Research land surface model (NCAR LSM1), has been modified as part of the development of the next version of these climate models. This new model is known as the community land model (CLM2). In CLM2, the surface is represented by five primary su...