Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · University of Maryland, College Park · +15 more institutions
Abstract
In preparation for the fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international community is developing new advanced Earth System Models (ESMs) to assess the combined effects of human activities (e.g. land use and fossil fuel emissions) on the carbon-climate system. In addition, four Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios of the future (2005–2100) are being provided by four Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) teams to be used as input to the ESMs for future carbon-climate projections (Moss et al. 2010). The diversity of approaches and requirements among IAMs and ESMs for tracking land-use change, along with the dependence of model projections on…
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- 35.14
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Authors
22- GCG. C. HurttCorresponding
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, Joint Global Change Research Institute, University Research Co (United States)
- LCLouise Chini
University of Maryland, College Park
- SFSteve Frolking
University of New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire at Manchester
- RBRichard Betts
Met Office
- JJJohannes J. Feddema
University of Kansas
Topics & keywords
- Earth system science
- Environmental science
- Land use
- Climate change
- Representative Concentration Pathways
- Harmonization
- Land use, land-use change and forestry
- Greenhouse gas
- Climate action