Impact of Land-Use on Climate Change

Eugenia Kalnay¹, Ming Cai², and Hong Li^1
1Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland
²Department of Meteorology, Florida State University

We present evidence that the difference in surface temperature trends (which are affected by both greenhouse warmings and surface effects), and the NCEP Reanalysis surface temperature trends (which are only affected by atmospheric temperature trends) can be used to estimate the impact of land-use and other surface changes. These include urbanization, agriculture and changes in precipitation.