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The Role of Landscape Processes within the Climate System

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Land-surface processes form a dynamic boundary interface within the earth system (Fig. 1). The multiscale impacts of land-surface processes in modifying regional weather and climate is noted from both the analysis of observations, as well as systematic experiments involving nonlinear, coupled modeling systems.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research project by funds from the NSF award DEB 0217631, NASA Grant NNX06AG74G and NNX07AG35G, NASA GWEC Grant NNG05GB41G, NOAA JCSDA Grant NA06NES4400013, DOE ARM 08ER64674, and NSF CAREER ATM-0847472 and NSF Grant ATM-0296159. Roger A. Pielke Sr. was also supported in part by the University of Colorado at Boulder (CIRES/ATOC). Dallas Staley completed the editing of this paper in her usual outstanding manner, and we gratefully acknowledge this very important contribution.

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    Roger A. Pielke Sr

  2. Departments of Agronomy and Earth – Atmos. Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, 47907-2054, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Dev Niyogi

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Pielke, R.A., Niyogi, D. (2009). The Role of Landscape Processes within the Climate System. In: Otto, JC., Dikau, R. (eds) Landform - Structure, Evolution, Process Control. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75761-0_5

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