DOI: 10.1002/grl.50159
论文题名: The role of land use change in the recent warming of daily extreme temperatures
作者: Christidis N. ; Stott P.A. ; Hegerl G.C. ; Betts R.A.
刊名: Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN: 0094-9317
EISSN: 1944-9048
出版年: 2013
卷: 40, 期: 3 起始页码: 589
结束页码: 594
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Detection and Attribution
; Land Use
; Temperature Extremes
Scopus关键词: Global warming
; Climatic changes
; Detection and attributions
; Earth system model
; Extreme temperatures
; Human activities
; Human influences
; Optimal fingerprinting technique
; Temperature extremes
; Land use
; cooling
; diurnal variation
; global warming
; grassland
; human activity
; land use change
; mortality
; temperature effect
英文摘要: Understanding how temperature extremes respond in a climate forced by human activity is of great importance, as extreme temperatures are detrimental to health and often responsible for mortality increases. While previous detection and attribution studies demonstrated a significant human influence on the recent warming of daily extremes, contributions of individual anthropogenic forcings like changes in land use have not yet been investigated in such studies. Here we apply an optimal fingerprinting technique to data from observations and experiments with a new earth system model to examine whether changing land use has led to detectable changes in daily extreme temperatures on a quasi-global scale. We find that loss of trees and increase of grassland since preindustrial times has caused an overall cooling trend in both mean and extreme temperatures which is detectable in the observed changes of warm but not cold extremes. The warming in both mean and extreme temperatures due to anthropogenic forcings other than land use is detected in all cases, whereas the weaker effect of natural climatic forcings is not detected in any. This is the first formal attribution of observed climatic changes to changing land use, suggesting further investigations are justified, particularly in studies of warm extremes. Key Points Global cooling due to changing land use has a detectable impact on warm extremes Global warming in mean/extreme temperatures due to other forcings is detectable The land use effect is detected for the first time in a formal attribution study ©2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/6581
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作者单位: Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Christidis N.,Stott P.A.,Hegerl G.C.,et al. The role of land use change in the recent warming of daily extreme temperatures[J]. Geophysical Research Letters,2013-01-01,40(3).