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Estimating the impact of the changes in land use and cover on the surface wind speed over the East China Plain during the period 1980–2011

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Long-term changes in surface wind speed (SWS) are influenced by both large-scale circulation and relative resistance. The effects of large-scale circulation are embodied by the pressure-gradient force (PGF), which is mostly a natural factor, whereas the resistance is due to the drag between the air and the surface as well as in the different boundary layers, which is mainly caused by the anthropogenic land use and cover change (LUCC). We performed experiments using a simple dynamical method in which a balance among the PGF, Coriolis force, and drag is reached to separate the effects of the PGF and LUCC on the SWS, and then, to quantitatively estimate the influence of the LUCC on the SWS over the East China Plain (ECP) during the period 1980–2011. The results show a distinct decrease in the SWS in the station observation data with a rate of −0.13 m s−1 (10 year)−1, but there is no statistically significant long-term trend in the reanalysis data. At the same time, the drag coefficient induced by the LUCC shows an increasing trend, which is consistent with the 30 % increase in the rate of urbanization during the study period. In addition, the PGF fluctuates with distinct seasonal and interannual changes, and it has an insignificant long-term increasing trend during the period 1980–2011. At the same time, the spatial distribution of the linear trend coefficient of the normalized PGF is inconsistent with that of the SWS, but the linear trend coefficient of the normalized drag coefficient shows a similar spatial distribution as the SWS. Therefore, the increase in the drag coefficient induced by the LUCC should account for the long-term decrease in the SWS. The difference between the model wind speed, in which the drag coefficient is constrained to its value in the year 1980, and the observed wind speed at each station (SWSD) can reflect the influence of the LUCC on the SWS. Furthermore, the long-term changes in East Asian monsoons may not completely account for the observed wind speed decrease near the surface in the ECP region, but it is an important factor in the SWS.

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Daily meteorological data is available at China Meteorological Data Sharing Service System, and the ERA Interim dataset come from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECWMF). We thank all the data sources. This study is sponsored by the National Key Program for Developing Basic Sciences of China (2011CB952003), and the Chinese Natural Science Foundation (41275162). This work is also supported by the Chinese Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change.

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  3. Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China

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Wu, J., Zha, J. & Zhao, D. Estimating the impact of the changes in land use and cover on the surface wind speed over the East China Plain during the period 1980–2011. Clim Dyn 46, 847–863 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2616-z

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