Thursday, 13 January 2000: 10:15 AM
The impact of land cover change / land use on turbulence
and mesoscale heat fluxes in the atmospheric boundary
layer is discussed based on observations collected as
part of GCIP and the LBA Experiment, as well as on a set
of numerical simulations produced with a regional-scale
atmospheric model. Based on this analysis, it appears
that land cover change / land use does significantly
affect the atmospheric boundary layer, including clouds.
The magnitude of this impact is dependent upon the
large-scale atmospheric conditions, mostly wind
intensity and stability.
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