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Impact of land cover changes on the South African climate

Ngwana, T. I., Demory, M.-E., Vidale, P. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460, Plant, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-0022 and Mbedzi, M. P. (2010) Impact of land cover changes on the South African climate. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 13 (1). 012009. ISSN 1755-1315

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/13/1/012009

Abstract/Summary

The Joint UK Land Environmental Simulator (JULES) was run offline to investigate the sensitivity of land surface type changes over South Africa. Sensitivity tests were made in idealised experiments where the actual land surface cover is replaced by a single homogeneous surface type. The vegetation surface types on which some of the experiments were made are static. Experimental tests were evaluated against the control. The model results show among others that the change of the surface cover results in changes of other variables such as soil moisture, albedo, net radiation and etc. These changes are also visible in the spin up process. The model shows different surfaces spinning up at different cycles. Because JULES is the land surface model of Unified Model, the results could be more physically meaningful if it is coupled to the Unified Model.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > NCAS
Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Soil Research Centre
ID Code:7683
Publisher:IOP

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