Land cover changes (LCCs) play an important role in the climate system. Research over
recent decades highlights the impacts of these changes on atmospheric temperature …

This article summarizes the changes in landscape structure because of human land
management over the last several centuries, and using observed and modeled data …

Land use and land cover change (LUCC) affects regional climate through modifications in
the water balance and energy budget. These impacts are frequently expressed by: changes …

Land use and land cover (LULC) change has been shown to have significant effect on
climate through various pathways that modulate land surface temperature and rainfall …

Weakening of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) is traditionally linked with large-scale
perturbations and circulations. However, the impacts of local changes in land use and land …

The present study attempts to explore changes in rainfall pattern in the Indian Himalayas
during 20th century using 80-year data from 30 rain gauge stations maintained by the India …

There is still large uncertainty over the status of global forest cover owing to the paucity of
comprehensive and holistic studies related to long term forest cover change. The aim of the …

A new homogenized daily maximum and minimum temperature data set, the Australian
Climate Observations Reference Network-Surface Air Temperature data set, has been …

The effect of irrigation on temperature has attracted much attention because its cooling effect
may mask the warming due to other factors, such as greenhouse gas forcing. Although many …

We investigate the sensitivity of surface temperature trends to land use land cover change
(LULC) over the conterminous United States (CONUS) using the observation minus …