DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12121
论文题名: Radiation budget changes with dry forest clearing in temperate Argentina
作者: Houspanossian J. ; Nosetto M. ; Jobbágy E.G.
刊名: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 13541013
出版年: 2013
卷: 19, 期: 4 起始页码: 1211
结束页码: 1222
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Albedo change
; Deforestation
; Energy budget
; NDVI
; Radiative forcing
; Temperate dry forest
Scopus关键词: albedo
; biophysics
; carbon emission
; cooling
; deforestation
; dry forest
; energy balance
; energy budget
; greenhouse gas
; land cover
; land use change
; MODIS
; NDVI
; radiation budget
; radiative forcing
; surface temperature
; temperate forest
; tropopause
; Argentina
; article
; climate
; tree
; Argentina
; Climate
; Trees
; Argentina
英文摘要: Land cover changes may affect climate and the energy balance of the Earth through their influence on the greenhouse gas composition of the atmosphere (biogeochemical effects) but also through shifts in the physical properties of the land surface (biophysical effects). We explored how the radiation budget changes following the replacement of temperate dry forests by crops in central semiarid Argentina and quantified the biophysical radiative forcing of this transformation. For this purpose, we computed the albedo and surface temperature for a 7-year period (2003-2009) from MODIS imagery at 70 paired sites occupied by native forests and crops and calculated the radiation budget at the tropopause and surface levels using a columnar radiation model parameterized with satellite data. Mean annual black-sky albedo and diurnal surface temperature were 50% and 2.5 °C higher in croplands than in dry forests. These contrasts increased the outgoing shortwave energy flux at the top of the atmosphere in croplands by a quarter (58.4 vs. 45.9 W m-2) which, together with a slight increase in the outgoing longwave flux, yielded a net cooling of -14 W m-2. This biophysical cooling effect would be equivalent to a reduction in atmospheric CO2 of 22 Mg C ha-1, which involves approximately a quarter to a half of the typical carbon emissions that accompany deforestation in these ecosystems. We showed that the replacement of dry forests by crops in central Argentina has strong biophysical effects on the energy budget which could counterbalance the biogeochemical effects of deforestation. Underestimating or ignoring these biophysical consequences of land-use changes on climate will certainly curtail the effectiveness of many warming mitigation actions, particularly in semiarid regions where high radiation load and smaller active carbon pools would increase the relative importance of biophysical forcing. © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/62469
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作者单位: Grupo de Estudios Ambientales - IMASL, Universidad Nacional de San Luis and CONICET, Ejército de los Andes 950, San Luis, D5700HHW, Argentina; Cátedra de Climatología Agrícola, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Oro Verde, Argentina
Recommended Citation:
Houspanossian J.,Nosetto M.,Jobbágy E.G.. Radiation budget changes with dry forest clearing in temperate Argentina[J]. Global Change Biology,2013-01-01,19(4)