Land-Use/Land-Cover Change and Its Impacts on Weather and Climate

• Published in: Boundary-layer meteorology Vol. 133; no. 3; pp. 297 - 298
• Main Authors: Niyogi, Dev, Mahmood, Rezaul, Adegoke, Jimmy O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01.12.2009; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Air temperature; Atmospheric aerosols; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate change; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Editorial; Environmental impact; Global climate; Land use; Meteorology; Moisture content; Urban Heat Island; Data Assimilation Scheme; Climate Response; Monsoon Depression; Diabatic Heating
• ISSN: 0006-8314; 1573-1472
• DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9437-8

Land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC) significantly affect weather and climate as is well documented in the scientific literature. These impacts include changes in air temperature, precipitation, atmospheric moisture content, energy uxes, and mesoscale and potentially large-scale circulations. Recently, the United States National Research Council (2005) highlighted the importance of LULCC and recommended the broadening of the climate-change issue to include land-use/land-cover processes as an important climate forcing. The report noted that, regional variations in radiative forcing may have important regional and global climatic implications that are not resolved by the concept of global mean radiative forcing. Tropospheric aerosols and landscape changes have particularly heterogeneous forcings.