The final product, the LandCaRe DSS should combine grid-based information on regional climate and land surface, robust climate impact models and socio-economic boundary conditions to develop spatially explicit climate impact scenarios.
She also studies the influence of the land surface on climate, including the potential for ecosystem-climate feedbacks to contribute to abrupt climate change.
Reliable estimates of past land cover are critical for assessing potential effects of anthropogenic land-cover changes on past earth surface-climate feedbacks and landscape complexity.
This discovery is not directly expected from the form of the governing equations, but is rather an emergent property of groundwater system interactions with the Earth's land surface and climate system.
However, such confined aquifers only cover around 6 20% of the Earth's surface44, are often located in more arid parts of the world and are, by definition, inherently less connected to the land surface and climate-related processes.
Shukla, a professor at George Mason, is an expert in the seasonal variability of climate, as well as how land surfaces influence climate.
The results suggested that the feedback from the Asian land surface within the climate system would amplify and modify external forcing, leading to marked climate changes in China.
Friedl is a professor in Boston University's earth and environment department and leads the school's land cover and surface climate research group, which studies continental-scale vegetation mapping and monitoring.
However, the impacts of these land surface modifications on climate are yet to be adequately understood.
