Grand Challenges in Understanding the Interplay of Climate and Land Changes

Author:

Liu Shuguang1,Bond-Lamberty Ben2,Boysen Lena R.3,Ford James D.4,Fox Andrew5,Gallo Kevin6,Hatfield Jerry7,Henebry Geoffrey M.8,Huntington Thomas G.9,Liu Zhihua10,Loveland Thomas R.1,Norby Richard J.11,Sohl Terry1,Steiner Allison L.12,Yuan Wenping13,Zhang Zhao13,Zhao Shuqing14

Affiliation:

1. Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

2. Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, Maryland

3. Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

4. Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

5. School of Natural Resources and the Environment, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

6. Center for Satellite Applications and Research, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, Maryland

7. National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa

8. Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota

9. New England Water Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine

10. Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

11. Environmental Sciences Division, and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

12. Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

13. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

14. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Abstract

Abstract Half of Earth’s land surface has been altered by human activities, creating various consequences on the climate and weather systems at local to global scales, which in turn affect a myriad of land surface processes and the adaptation behaviors. This study reviews the status and major knowledge gaps in the interactions of land and atmospheric changes and present 11 grand challenge areas for the scientific research and adaptation community in the coming decade. These land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC)-related areas include 1) impacts on weather and climate, 2) carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, 3) biospheric emissions, 4) the water cycle, 5) agriculture, 6) urbanization, 7) acclimation of biogeochemical processes to climate change, 8) plant migration, 9) land-use projections, 10) model and data uncertainties, and, finally, 11) adaptation strategies. Numerous studies have demonstrated the effects of LCLUC on local to global climate and weather systems, but these putative effects vary greatly in magnitude and even sign across space, time, and scale and thus remain highly uncertain. At the same time, many challenges exist toward improved understanding of the consequences of atmospheric and climate change on land process dynamics and services. Future effort must improve the understanding of the scale-dependent, multifaceted perturbations and feedbacks between land and climate changes in both reality and models. To this end, one critical cross-disciplinary need is to systematically quantify and better understand measurement and model uncertainties. Finally, LCLUC mitigation and adaptation assessments must be strengthened to identify implementation barriers, evaluate and prioritize opportunities, and examine how decision-making processes work in specific contexts.

Funder

U.S. Geological Survey Land Change Science Program

Earth System Modeling Program of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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