Recent changes on land use/land cover over Indian region and its impact on the weather prediction using Unified model

This study compares the changes of land use/land cover (Lu/Lc) or the surface type in last decades over India. Recent surface‐type fractions show few major regional changes over India. There is a decrease in vegetation fraction, increase in urban and bare soil fractions over India. The Unified Model...

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Published in:Atmospheric science letters 2016-04, Vol.17 (4), p.294-300
Main Authors: C.K., Unnikrishnan, Gharai, Biswadip, Mohandas, Saji, Mamgain, Ashu, Rajagopal, E. N., Iyengar, Gopal R., Rao, P. V. N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric sciences
Computer simulation
Datasets
Earth science
Heat
India
Land cover
land surface model
Land surface models
Land use
land use land cover
Precipitation
Simulators
Soil
Studies
Temperature
Topography
unified model
Vegetation
Weather
Weather forecasting
weather prediction
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Summary:This study compares the changes of land use/land cover (Lu/Lc) or the surface type in last decades over India. Recent surface‐type fractions show few major regional changes over India. There is a decrease in vegetation fraction, increase in urban and bare soil fractions over India. The Unified Model coupled with Joint UK Land Environment Simulator land surface model was used to investigate the recent Lu/Lc impact on weather prediction. Preliminary results show improvement in weather prediction by the incorporation of the recent Lu/Lc data. This highlights the need to incorporate more realistic Lu/Lc in the dynamical models for better weather prediction.
ISSN:1530-261X
1530-261X
DOI:10.1002/asl.658