Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of Regional Climate Due to Land-Cover Changes in the Eastern U.S. Since 1650
CSU Project #: 5-34594Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Primary Investigator: Lixin Lu, Ph.D.
Start Date: August 15th, 2012
End Date: July 31st, 2015
Objectives:
- The overall goal of this study is to understand and quantify the effects of eastern United States historical land-cover and land-use changes on land-atmosphere energy exchanges, hydrologic processes, and carbon cycling at seasonal to inter-annual time scales, and their consequent feedbacks to the regional weather and climate system.
- Determine the overall impacts of historical land-cover change on weather and climate in the eastern United States and compare the magnitude of that change to simulated changes from the global multi-decadal models (IPCC 2007).
- Explore how the impacts of historical land-cover change on surface fluxes, and on weather and climate differ between seasons.
- Compare the relative contributions of the various biophysical parameters and the wetland fractional coverage (derived from PSS fraction product of Steyaert and Knox) to the total weather and climate perturbations due to the land-cover change.
Progress Reports:
** No Progress Report **CIRA Themes relevant to this project:
- Climate-Weather Processes
