Land-surface changes: feedbacks and climate forcing

Relative roles of surface temperature and climate forcing patterns in the inconstancy of radiative feedbacks

Potential climate forcing of land use and land cover change

Pressure on land resources is expected to increase as global population continues to climb and the world becomes more affluent, swelling the demand for food. Changing climate may exert additional pressures on natural lands as present-day productive regions may shift, or soil quality may degrade, and the recent rise in demand for biofuels increases competition with edible crops for arable land. ...

Regional feedbacks under changing climate and land-use conditions

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Climate feedbacks in CCSM 3 under changing CO 2 forcing . Part 1 II : Variation of climate feedbacks and sensitivity with forcing

5 Are equilibrium climate sensitivity and the associated radiative feedbacks a constant property 6 of the climate system, or do they change with forcing magnitude and base climate? Using 7 the radiative kernel technique, feedbacks and climate sensitivity are evaluated in a fully 8 coupled general circulation model (GCM) for three successive doublings of carbon dioxide 9 starting from present da...

Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use Changes on Land Surface Radiation and Energy Budgets

Land surface radiation and energy budgets are critical to address a variety of scientific and application issues related to climate trends, weather predictions, hydrologic and biogeophysical modeling, and the monitoring of ecosystem health and agricultural crops. This is an introductory paper to the special issue of land surface radiation and energy budgets from an international conference on t...