Human-induced land cover changes (LCCs), such as the clearing of forests for farming, can affect regional climate. Scientists arrived at this conclusion after analyzing seven different climate models.
To study the regional and global effects of LCC, A. J. Pitman from Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, analyzed seven different climate models.
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The researchers found that in all models, LCC has a statistically significant regional effect on latent heat flux and near-surface temperature.
Furthermore, they found that LCC affect temperature only in the region where the land cover change took place, not in remote regions.
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The researchers concluded that it is essential to include LCC in future regional and global climate studies but that it is not feasible to impose them in a common way across multiple models for the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment.
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Fluctuations in temperature during the day, not just the average monthly temperature, should be considered when it comes to studying the impact of climate change on malaria.
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