A regional scale assessment of land use/land cover and climatic changes on water and energy cycle in the upper Midwest United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (13) ◽  
pp. 2025-2044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vimal Mishra ◽  
Keith A. Cherkauer ◽  
Dev Niyogi ◽  
Ming Lei ◽  
Bryan C. Pijanowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
Midwest United States ◽  
Scale Assessment ◽  
Energy Cycle

Spatial features of land use/land cover change in the United States

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Gao ◽  
Jiyuan Liu ◽  
Xiangzheng Deng
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Spatial Features

scholarly journals Streamflow response to potential land use and climate changes in the James River watershed, Upper Midwest United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 150-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Ahiablame ◽  
Tushar Sinha ◽  
Manashi Paul ◽  
Jae-Hyung Ji ◽  
Adnan Rajib
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
James River ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
Midwest United States ◽  
Streamflow Response ◽  
Potential Land

scholarly journals A space view of agricultural and industrial changes during the Syrian civil war

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rimal Abeed ◽  
Cathy Clerbaux ◽  
Lieven Clarisse ◽  
Martin Van Damme ◽  
Pierre-François Coheur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Atmospheric Composition ◽  
Burned Area ◽  
Land Cover Changes ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
North East

The agricultural sector in Syria was heavily affected by the civil war that started in 2011. We investigate the war’s impact on the country’s atmospheric ammonia (NH3) from 2008 to 2019, using measurements from the infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer instrument on board the Metop satellites. We examine the changes in NH3 close to a fertilizer industry, whose activities were suspended due to conflict-related events. We also explore the effect of war-induced land use/land cover changes on agriculture-emitted ammonia in north-east Syria that has witnessed battles between different groups. The interpretation of the changes in NH3 is supported by different datasets: visible satellite imagery to assess the effect on industrial activity, reanalysis data from the European center for medium-range weather forecasts to look at the effect of meteorology (temperature, wind speed, and precipitation), and land cover and burned area products from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) to examine land use/land cover changes and fire events during the study period. We show that the NH3 columns are directly affected by the war. Periods of intense conflict are reflected in lower values over the industry reaching –17%, –47%, and –32% in 2013, 2014, and 2016, respectively, compared to the [2008–2012] average, and a decrease reaching –14% and –15% in the croplands’ area in northeast Syria during 2017 and 2018 (compared to 2011), respectively. Toward the end of the control of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, an increase in atmospheric NH3 was accompanied by an increase in croplands’ area that reached up to +35% in 2019 as compared to prewar (2011). This study shows the relevance of remote-sensing data of atmospheric composition in studying societal changes at a local and regional scale.

Impacts of land use land cover on temperature trends over the continental United States: assessment using the North American Regional Reanalysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (13) ◽  
pp. 1980-1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Souleymane Fall ◽  
Dev Niyogi ◽  
Alexander Gluhovsky ◽  
Roger A. Pielke ◽  
Eugenia Kalnay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
North American ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
The North ◽  
Temperature Trends ◽  
North American Regional Reanalysis ◽  
Regional Reanalysis

scholarly journals Impact of urban expansion on continental- to regional-scale warming

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
TC Chakraborty ◽  
Yun Qian
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Models

Abstract Although the influence of land use/land cover change on climate has become increasingly apparent, cities and other built-up areas are usually ignored when estimating large-scale historical climate change or for future projections since cities cover a small fraction of the terrestrial land surface1,2. As such, ground-based observations of urban near-surface meteorology are rare and most earth system models do not represent historical or future urban land cover3–7. Here, by combining global satellite observations of land surface temperature with historical estimates of built-up area, we demonstrate that the urban temperature signal on continental- to regional-scale warming has become non-negligible, especially for rapidly urbanizing regions in Asia. Consequently, expected urban expansion over the next century suggest further increased urban influence on surface climate under all future climate scenarios. Based on these results, we argue that, in line with other forms of land use/land cover change, urbanization should be explicitly included in future climate change assessments. This would require extensive model development to incorporate urban extent and biophysics in current-generation earth system models to quantify potential urban feedbacks on the climate system at multiple scales.

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