Simulated Effects of Cropland Expansion on Summer Climate in Eastern China in the Last Three Centuries
Joint Authors
Zhang, Xuezhen
Ge, Quansheng
Zheng, Jingyun
He, Fanneng
Source
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-10-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
To understand the effects of the land use/cover changes due to agricultural development on summer climate in Eastern China, four 12-year simulations using the WRF-SSiB model were performed.
We found that agricultural development resulted in warming and rainy effects.
In the middle to lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the warming effects were approximately 0.6°C and resulted from increased surface net radiation and sensible heat fluxes.
In Northeast China, the warming effects were very small due to increases in latent heat fluxes which resulted from the extensive conversion from grassland to cropland.
The rainy effect resulted from increases in convective rainfall, which was associated with a warming surface in certain areas of the Yellow River and Yangtze River and a large increase in the surface moisture flux in Northeast China.
Conversely, in the middle to lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the grid-scale rainfall decreased because the climatological northward wind, which is moist and warm, was partially offset by a southward wind anomaly.
These findings suggest that the agricultural development left footprints not only on the present climate but also on the historical climate changes before the industrial revolution.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ge, Quansheng& Zheng, Jingyun& Zhang, Xuezhen& He, Fanneng. 2013. Simulated Effects of Cropland Expansion on Summer Climate in Eastern China in the Last Three Centuries. Advances in Meteorology،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ge, Quansheng…[et al.]. Simulated Effects of Cropland Expansion on Summer Climate in Eastern China in the Last Three Centuries. Advances in Meteorology No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-10.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Ge, Quansheng& Zheng, Jingyun& Zhang, Xuezhen& He, Fanneng. Simulated Effects of Cropland Expansion on Summer Climate in Eastern China in the Last Three Centuries. Advances in Meteorology. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-476545
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-476545