Current challenges of implementing anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change in models contributing to climate change assessments

Prestele, Reinhard; Arneth, Almut; Bondeau, Alberte; de Noblet-Ducoudré, Nathalie; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sitch, Stephen; Stehfest, Elke; Verburg, Peter H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-369-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-369-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-369-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

Short communication

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23 May 2017

Short communication |

| 23 May 2017

Current challenges of implementing anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change in models contributing to climate change assessments

Reinhard Prestele, Almut Arneth, Alberte Bondeau, Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Stephen Sitch, Elke Stehfest, and Peter H. Verburg

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-369-2017-supplement

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Demand for biodiversity protection and carbon storage as drivers of global land change scenarios (http://www.environmentalgeography.nl/site/data-models/) D. A. Eitelberg, J. van Vliet, J. C. Doelman, E. Stehfest, and P. H. Verburg https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.06.014

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Land-use change is still overly simplistically implemented in global ecosystem and climate models. We identify and discuss three major challenges at the interface of land-use and climate modeling and propose ways for how to improve land-use representation in climate models. We conclude that land-use data-provider and user communities need to engage in the joint development and evaluation of enhanced land-use datasets to improve the quantification of land use–climate interactions and feedback.