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Impact Assessments on Water and Heat Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystem Due to Land Use Change

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Water and heat fluxes of terrestrial ecosystem play an important role in the sustainable development of ecosystem services. In this chapter, we first investigated the spatial variation of heat fluxes and surface temperature in an inland irrigation area of the northern China. Irrigated agriculture has the potential to alter regional to global climate significantly. We investigate how irrigation will affect regional climate in the future in an inland irrigation area of northern China, focusing on its effects on heat fluxes and near-surface temperature. Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, we compare simulations among three land cover scenarios: the control scenario (CON), the irrigation scenario (IRR), and the irrigated cropland expansion scenario (ICE). Our results show that the surface energy budgets and temperature are sensitive to changes in the extent and spatial pattern of irrigated land. Conversion to irrigated agriculture at the contemporary scale leads to an increase in annual mean latent heat fluxes of 12.10 W m−2, a decrease in annual mean sensible heat fluxes of 8.85 W m−2, and a decrease in annual mean temperature of 1.3 °C across the study region. Further expansion of irrigated land increases annual mean latent heat fluxes by 18.08 W m−2, decreases annual mean sensible heat fluxes by 12.31 W m−2, and decreases annual mean temperature by 1.7 °C. Our simulated effects of irrigation show that changes in land use management such as irrigation can be an important component of climate change and need to be considered together with greenhouse forcing in climate change assessments. Then, the spatial variation of surface temperature and precipitation due to grassland conversion to forestry area in southeast China was examined. The land use/land cover change (LUCC) is the synthetic result of natural processes and human activities; it largely depends on the surface vegetation conditions, and the mutual conversion among land cover types can accelerate or alleviate the regional and global climate change. Aiming at analyzing the regional climatic effects of the conversion from grassland to forestland, especially in the long-term perspective, we carried out the comparison simulation using the WRF model in Fujian Province, and results indicated that this conversion had a significant influence on the regional climate; the annual average temperature decreased by 0.11 °C, and the annual average precipitation increased by 46 mm after 11.2 % of the grassland was converted into the forestland in the study area from 2000 to 2008. In the future (from 2010 to 2050), the conversion from grassland to forestland is significant under two representative concentration pathways (RCPs) (RCP6 and RCP8.5); the spatial pattern of this conversion under the two scenarios is simulated by dynamics of land system (DLS); then, the regional climate effects of the conversion are simulated using WRF model. Further, the spatial variation of surface heat fluxes due to land use change across China was estimated. We estimate the heat flux changes caused by the projected land transformation over the next 40 years across China to improve the understanding of the impacts of land dynamics on regional climate. We use the WRF model to investigate these impacts in four representative land transformation zones, where reclamation, overgrazing, afforestation, and urbanization dominate the LUCC in each zone, respectively. As indicated by the significant variance of albedo due to different LUCCs, different surface properties cause great spatial variance of the surface flux. From the simulation results, latent heat flux increases by 2 and 21 W/m2 in the reclamation and afforestation regions, respectively. On the contrary, overgrazing and urban expansion result in decrease of latent heat flux by 5 and 36 W/m2, correspondingly. Urban expansion leads to an average increase of 40 W/m2 of sensible heat flux in the future 40 years, while reclamation, afforestation, and overgrazing result in the decrease of sensible heat flux. Results also show that reclamation and overgrazing lead to net radiation decrease by approximately 4 and 7 W/m2, respectively; however, afforestation and urbanization lead to net radiation increase by 6 and 3 W/m2, respectively. The simulated impacts of projected HLCCs on surface energy fluxes will inform sustainable land management and climate change mitigation. Finally, we summarized the predicted impacts of land use change on surface temperature in the typical areas around the world. This study focuses on the potential impacts of large-scale LUCC on surface temperature from a global perspective. As important types of LUCC, urbanization, deforestation, cultivated land reclamation, and grassland degradation have effects on the climate, the potential changes of the surface temperature caused by these four types of large-scale LUCC from 2010 to 2050 are downscaled, and this issue is analyzed worldwide along with RCPs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The first case study presents some evidence of the effects of future urbanization on surface temperature in the Northeast megalopolis of the USA. In order to understand the potential climatological variability caused by future forest deforestation and vulnerability, we chose Brazilian Amazon region as the second case study. The third selected region in India is a typical region of cultivated land reclamation, where the possible climatic impacts are explored. In the fourth case study, we simulate the surface temperature changes caused by future grassland degradation in Mongolia. Results show that the temperature in built-up area would increase obviously throughout the four land types. In addition, the effects of all four large-scale LUCCs on monthly average temperature change would vary from month to month with obviously spatial heterogeneity.

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    Xiangzheng Deng & Jiyuan Liu

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  3. School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China

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  4. School of Economics, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing, 100872, China

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  7. Department of Geography, Texas State University, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX, 78666, USA

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Deng, X. et al. (2015). Impact Assessments on Water and Heat Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystem Due to Land Use Change. In: Zhan, J. (eds) Impacts of Land-use Change on Ecosystem Services. Springer Geography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48008-3_5

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