• DOI:10.1175/jcli-d-11-00338.1
• Corpus ID: 130734819

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

@article{NobletDucoudr2012DeterminingRI,
  title={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},
  author={Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudr{\'e} and Juan Pablo Boisier and Andrew J. Pitman and Gordon B. Bonan and Victor A. Brovkin and Faye T. Cruz and Christine Delire and Veronika Gayler and Bart Van den Hurk and Peter J. Lawrence and Michiel van der Molen and Christoph M{\"u}ller and Christian H. Reick and Bart J. Strengers and Aurore Voldoire},
  journal={Journal of Climate},
  year={2012},
  volume={25},
  pages={3261-3281}
}

• N. Noblet-Ducoudré, J. Boisier, +12 authors A. Voldoire
• Published 8 May 2012
• Environmental Science
• Journal of Climate

AbstractThe project Land-Use and Climate, Identification of Robust Impacts (LUCID) was conceived to address the robustness of biogeophysical impacts of historical land use–land cover change (LULCC). LUCID used seven atmosphere–land models with a common experimental design to explore those impacts of LULCC that are robust and consistent across the climate models. The biogeophysical impacts of LULCC were also compared to the impact of elevated greenhouse gases and resulting changes in sea surface temperatures and sea ice extent (CO2SST). Focusing the analysis on Eurasia and North America, this study shows that for a number of variables LULCC has an impact of similar magnitude but of an opposite sign, to increased greenhouse gases and warmer oceans. However, the variability among the individual models’ response to LULCC is larger than that found from the increase in CO2SST. The results of the study show that although the dispersion among the models’ response to LULCC is large, there are a number of robust co...