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7. Synoptic-based evaluation of climatic response to vegetation change over southern Africa.

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MacKellar, Neil, Tadross, Mark, and Hewitson, Bruce

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*CLIMATOLOGY, *COMPUTER simulation, *ATMOSPHERIC boundary layer, *SELF-organizing maps
Abstract

The article focuses on a study which examine the impact of vegetation change in Southern Africa using regional climate model (RCM) simulations. To identify the large-scale characteristics in the atmospheric boundary conditions to force the RCM, a self-organizing map (SOM) is used. The mean RCM-simulated response to vegetation change is assessed.

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2010
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8. Effects of vegetation map change in MM5 simulations of southern Africa's summer climate.

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MacKellar, Neil C., Tadross, Mark A., and Hewitson, Bruce C.

Subjects
*ATMOSPHERIC research, *CLIMATOLOGY, *PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL mapping, *VEGETATION & climate, *RAINFALL, *AGRICULTURAL climatology, *SUMMER, *LATENT heat release in the atmosphere
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The article reports on the study which determines the potential climatic impacts of altering the vegetation map of Southern Africa's summer climate using the Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5). Study shows that resultant decreases in rainfall cause a hydrological feedback through latent heat flux which reduces the initial cooling and weakens the positive geopotential height bias in December to February (DJF) surface climate. It is also stated that the increase in geopotential height has important implications for regional moisture transport over the region.

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2009
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9. Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change

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Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg, Kanikicharla, Krishna Kumar, Aldrian, Edvin, An, Soon-Il, Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Iracema Fonseca, Castro, Manuel, Dong, Wenjie, Goswami, Prashant, Hall, Alex, Kanyanga, Joseph Katongo, Kitoh, Akio, Kossin, James, Lau, Ngar-Cheung, Renwick, James, Stephenson, David B., Xie, Shang-Ping, Zhou, Tianjun, Abraham, Libu, Ambrizzi, Tercio, Anderson, Bruce, Arakawa, Osamu, Arritt, Raymond, Baldwin, Mark, Barlow, Mathew, David Barriopedro, Biasutti, Michela, Biner, Sebastien, Bromwich, David, Brown, Josephine, Cai, Wenju, Carvalho, Leila V., Chang, Ping, Chen, Xiaolong, Choi, Jung, Christensen, Ole Bossing, Deser, Clara, Emanuel, Kerry, Endo, Hirokazu, Enfield, David B., Evan, Amato, Giannini, Alessandra, Gillett, Nathan, Hariharasubramanian, Annamalai, Huang, Ping, Jones, Julie, Karumuri, Ashok, Katzfey, Jack, Kjellstrom, Erik, Knight, Jeff, Knutson, Thomas, Kulkarni, Ashwini, Kundeti, Koteswara Rao, Lau, William K., Lenderink, Geert, Lennard, Chris, Leung, Lai-Yung Ruby, Lin, Renping, Losada, Teresa, Mackellar, Neil C., Magana, Victor, Marshall, Gareth, Mearns, Linda, Meehl, Gerald, Menendez, Claudio, Murakami, Hiroyuki, Nath, Mary Jo, Neelin, J. David, Oldenborgh, Geert Jan, Olesen, Martin, Polcher, Jan, Qian, Yun, Ray, Suchanda, Reich, Katharine Davis, Rodriguez Fonseca, Belen, Ruti, Paolo, Screen, James, Sedlacek, Jan, Solman, Silvina, Stendel, Martin, Stevenson, Samantha, Takayabu, Izuru, Turner, John, Ummenhofer, Caroline, Walsh, Kevin, Wang, Bin, Wang, Chunzai, Watterson, Ian, Widlansky, Matthew, Wittenberg, Andrew, Woollings, Tim, Yeh, Sang-Wook, Zhang, Chidong, Zhang, Lixia, Zheng, Xiaotong, and Zou, Liwei

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