International comparisons of the modeled climate effects of land use changes

Abstract

Previous chapters focus on the climate effects responding to different types of land use changes in China. This chapter furthers the researches on the land use impacts on climate from a global perspective. Five distinguished cases for estimating the impacts of land surface changes on climate through the world are introduced separately. The first one still focuses on the possible impacts of underlying cultivated land reclamation on the future climate change, but we move the study area to India where land reclamation became the dominated land conversion comparing with other economies. Specifically, the future cultivated land reclamation is projected for the climate model’s performance to estimate the potential effects on local energy flux and temperature in summer and winter.