Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-473-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-473-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Different response of surface temperature and air temperature to deforestation in climate models
Johannes Winckler
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling, Hamburg, Germany
Christian H. Reick
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Alessandro Cescatti
Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
Paul C. Stoy
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Quentin Lejeune
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH-Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
currently at: Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Raddatz
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Chlond
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Marvin Heidkamp
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling, Hamburg, Germany
Julia Pongratz
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Supplementary material and data for the manuscript 'Different response of surface temperature and air temperature to deforestation in climate models' J. Winckler, C. H. Reick, T. Raddatz, J. Pongratz, and C. Kauhs http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-CCA1-2
Short summary
For local living conditions, it matters whether deforestation influences the surface temperature, temperature at 2 m, or the temperature higher up in the atmosphere. Here, simulations with a climate model show that at a location of deforestation, surface temperature generally changes more strongly than atmospheric temperature. Comparison across climate models shows that both for summer and winter the surface temperature response exceeds the air temperature response locally by a factor of 2.
For local living conditions, it matters whether deforestation influences the surface...
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