Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-473-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-473-2019
Research article
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19 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 19 Jul 2019

Different response of surface temperature and air temperature to deforestation in climate models

Johannes Winckler, Christian H. Reick, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Alessandro Cescatti, Paul C. Stoy, Quentin Lejeune, Thomas Raddatz, Andreas Chlond, Marvin Heidkamp, and Julia Pongratz

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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

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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.
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