1. Vegetation greening in China and its effect on summer regional climate.
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Yu, Lingxue, Xue, Yongkang, and Diallo, Ismaila
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ENVIRONMENTAL sciences , *WEATHER forecasting , *DESERTIFICATION , *LAND degradation , *CLIMATE change , *METEOROLOGICAL research , *LEAF area index - Abstract
To mitigate the impacts of land degradation and achieve sustainable development, several large-scale conservation programs including the Key Shelterbelt Construction Program, Natural Forest Conservation Program, and the Grain to Green Program have been formulated into action in China since the late 1970s and 1998, respectively [1]. However, a study based on an ESM indicated that in North and Southeast China, the increased precipitation from vegetation greening, although statistically insignificant, may cancel out enhanced evapotranspiration, resulting in weak impact on soil moisture [5]. However, in areas such as south of the Loess Plateau and South China with less moisture flux convergence to balance the increased evapotranspiration, the soil moisture at the root zone reduced by 0.01-0.03 (Fig. 2 June-July-August difference between the impact run and the control run in: (a) surface temperature (°C), (b) precipitation (mm/d), (c) evapotranspiration (mm/d), (d) integrated moisture flux convergence (mm/d) and (e) wind vector at 700 hPa (m/s). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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