Understanding land use change impacts on microclimate using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
Abstract
In order to explore potential climatic consequences of land cover change in the Kolkata Metropolitan Development area, we projected microclimate conditions in this area using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model driven by future land use scenarios. Specifically, we considered two land conversion scenarios including an urbanization scenario that all the wetlands and croplands would be converted to built-up areas, and an irrigation expansion scenario in which all wetlands and dry croplands would be replaced by irrigated croplands. Our results indicated that land use and land cover (LULC) change would dramatically increase regional temperature in this area under the urbanization scenario, but expanded irrigation tended to have a cooling effect. In the urbanization scenario, precipitation center tended to move eastward and lead to increased rainfall in eastern parts of this region. Increased irrigation stimulated rainfall in central and eastern areas but reduced rainfall in southwestern and northwestern parts of the study area. Our study also demonstrated that urbanization significantly reduced latent heat fluxes and albedo of land surface; while increased sensible heat flux changes following urbanization suggested that developed land surfaces mainly acted as heat sources. In this study, climate change projection not only predicts future spatiotemporal patterns ofmore »
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- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Geographical Sciences
- Auburn Univ., AL (United States). Dept. of Geosciences
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Joint Global Change Resesarch Inst.
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- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1344908
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-135055
Journal ID: ISSN 1474-7065; PII: S1474706516302339
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 103; Journal ID: ISSN 1474-7065
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Microclimate change; Urbanization; Wetland conversion; Weather Research and Forecasting model
Citation Formats
Li, Xia, Mitra, Chandana, Dong, Li, and Yang, Qichun. Understanding land use change impacts on microclimate using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.pce.2017.01.017.
Li, Xia, Mitra, Chandana, Dong, Li, & Yang, Qichun. Understanding land use change impacts on microclimate using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2017.01.017
Li, Xia, Mitra, Chandana, Dong, Li, and Yang, Qichun. Thu .
"Understanding land use change impacts on microclimate using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2017.01.017. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1344908.
@article{osti_1344908,
title = {Understanding land use change impacts on microclimate using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model},
author = {Li, Xia and Mitra, Chandana and Dong, Li and Yang, Qichun},
abstractNote = {In order to explore potential climatic consequences of land cover change in the Kolkata Metropolitan Development area, we projected microclimate conditions in this area using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model driven by future land use scenarios. Specifically, we considered two land conversion scenarios including an urbanization scenario that all the wetlands and croplands would be converted to built-up areas, and an irrigation expansion scenario in which all wetlands and dry croplands would be replaced by irrigated croplands. Our results indicated that land use and land cover (LULC) change would dramatically increase regional temperature in this area under the urbanization scenario, but expanded irrigation tended to have a cooling effect. In the urbanization scenario, precipitation center tended to move eastward and lead to increased rainfall in eastern parts of this region. Increased irrigation stimulated rainfall in central and eastern areas but reduced rainfall in southwestern and northwestern parts of the study area. Our study also demonstrated that urbanization significantly reduced latent heat fluxes and albedo of land surface; while increased sensible heat flux changes following urbanization suggested that developed land surfaces mainly acted as heat sources. In this study, climate change projection not only predicts future spatiotemporal patterns of multiple climate factors, but also provides valuable insights into policy making related to land use management, water resource management, and agriculture management to adapt and mitigate future climate changes in this populous region.},
doi = {10.1016/j.pce.2017.01.017},
journal = {Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C},
number = ,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Thu Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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Fig. 1: A) Four nested domains selected for model simulation and B) land cover types in domain 3 and domain 4. Urban and built-up land in domain 4 (blue frame in B) is Kolkata Metropolitan Development area and the yellow frame shows the location of East Kolkata wetlands. (For interpretationmore »
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