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Impacts of land use and land cover change on regional climate: a case study in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of China [1]

Assessing the impacts of land use and land cover change (LUCC) on regional climate is essential for understanding land–atmosphere interactions and for designing climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. Using the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model, we examined how different land use and land cover patterns affect regional climate in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of North China, whose environmental and socioeconomic conditions are sensitive to climate change.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
29/12/2015
Qian Cao [3], Deyong Yu [4], Matei Georgescu & et al [5]
Environmental Research Letters [6]
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Tags:
Land Use [7], Climate Change [8], China [9], Remote Sensing [10], Agriculture [11], Grasslands [12], Flora [13]
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[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124025/pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/qian-cao
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/deyong-yu
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/matei-georgescu-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/environmental-research-letters
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/grasslands
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/flora