TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system
T2 - Relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases
AU - Pielke, Roger A.
AU - Marland, Gregg
AU - Betts, Richard A.
AU - Chase, Thomas N.
AU - Eastman, Joseph L.
AU - Niles, John O.
AU - Niyogi, Dev Dutta S.
AU - Running, Steven W.
PY - 2002/8/15
Y1 - 2002/8/15
N2 - Our paper documents that land-use change impacts regional and global climate through the surface-energy budget, as well as through the carbon cycle. The surface-energy budget effects may be more important than the carbon-cycle effects. However, land-use impacts on climate cannot be adequately quantified with the usual metric of 'global warming potential'. A new metric is needed to quantify the human disturbance of the Earth's surface-energy budget. This 'regional climate change potential' could offer a new metric for developing a more inclusive climate protocol. This concept would also implicitly provide a mechanism to monitor potential local-scale environmental changes that could influence biodiversity.
AB - Our paper documents that land-use change impacts regional and global climate through the surface-energy budget, as well as through the carbon cycle. The surface-energy budget effects may be more important than the carbon-cycle effects. However, land-use impacts on climate cannot be adequately quantified with the usual metric of 'global warming potential'. A new metric is needed to quantify the human disturbance of the Earth's surface-energy budget. This 'regional climate change potential' could offer a new metric for developing a more inclusive climate protocol. This concept would also implicitly provide a mechanism to monitor potential local-scale environmental changes that could influence biodiversity.
KW - Climate-system dynamics
KW - Global climate change
KW - Landscape change
KW - Landscape dynamics
KW - Regional climate change
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0037103609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rsta.2002.1027
DO - 10.1098/rsta.2002.1027
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12460493
AN - SCOPUS:0037103609
SN - 1364-503X
VL - 360
SP - 1705
EP - 1719
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
IS - 1797
ER -
