Land use effects on climate: current state, recent progress, and emerging topics

J Pongratz, C Schwingshackl, S Bultan… - Current Climate Change …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review As demand for food and fiber, but also for negative emissions,
brings most of the Earth's land surface under management, we aim to consolidate the …

[HTML][HTML] COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review

SL Sørland, R Brogli, PK Pothapakula… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
In the last decade, the Climate Limited-area Modeling Community (CLM-Community) has
contributed to the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) with …

Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

D Jacob, C Teichmann, S Sobolowski… - Regional environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The European CORDEX (EURO-CORDEX) initiative is a large voluntary effort that
seeks to advance regional climate and Earth system science in Europe. As part of the World …

Global forestation and deforestation affect remote climate via adjusted atmosphere and ocean circulation

R Portmann, U Beyerle, E Davin, EM Fischer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Forests can store large amounts of carbon and provide essential ecosystem services.
Massive tree planting is thus sometimes portrayed as a panacea to mitigate climate change …

Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover

G Duveiller, F Filipponi, A Ceglar, J Bojanowski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Forests play a key role in humanity's current challenge to mitigate climate change thanks to
their capacity to sequester carbon. Preserving and expanding forest cover is considered …

Soil drought can mitigate deadly heat stress thanks to a reduction of air humidity

H Wouters, J Keune, IY Petrova… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Global warming increases the number and severity of deadly heatwaves. Recent heatwaves
often coincided with soil droughts that intensify air temperature but lower air humidity. Since …

[HTML][HTML] Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2. 0–an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of …

V Eyring, L Bock, A Lauer, M Righi… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a community diagnostics
and performance metrics tool designed to improve comprehensive and routine evaluation of …

The biogeophysical effects of idealized land cover and land management changes in Earth system models

SJ De Hertog, F Havermann, I Vanderkelen… - Earth System …, 2023 - esd.copernicus.org
Land cover and land management change (LCLMC) has been highlighted for its critical role
in mitigation scenarios, both in terms of global mitigation and local adaptation. Yet, the …

Predominant regional biophysical cooling from recent land cover changes in Europe

B Huang, X Hu, GA Fuglstad, X Zhou, W Zhao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Around 70 Mha of land cover changes (LCCs) occurred in Europe from 1992 to 2015.
Despite LCCs being an important driver of regional climate variations, their temperature …

Process-based climate change assessment for European winds using EURO-CORDEX and global models

J Wohland - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Wind energy is an important pillar of decarbonization strategies and potentially vulnerable to
climate change. Existing wind climate change assessments rely on climate models but a …