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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3215-2021
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Development and technical paper
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03 Jun 2021
Development and technical paper |
| 03 Jun 2021
| 03 Jun 2021
Limitations of WRF land surface models for simulating land use and land cover change in Sub-Saharan Africa and development of an improved model (CLM-AF v. 1.0)
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Diana Ramírez-Mejía
Centre for Research in Environmental Geography, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, Morelia, 58190, Mexico
Jared Bowden
Department of
Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Adrian Ghilardi
Centre for Research in Environmental Geography, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, Morelia, 58190, Mexico
J. Jason West
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Short summary
Land use and land cover change is a major contributor to climate change in Africa. Here we document deficiencies in how a weather model represents the land surface of Africa and how we modify a common land surface model to overcome these deficiencies. Our tests reveal that the default weather model does not accurately predict and transition the properties of different African biomes and growing cycles. This paper demonstrates that our modified model addresses these limitations.
Land use and land cover change is a major contributor to climate change in Africa. Here we...
