Spatially Explicit Land-Use and Land-Cover Scenarios for China

In climate modeling, land use data is applied as underlying surfaces and definitively determines the simulation results of regional climate. Researches show that Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) not only affects the terrestrial ecosystem biodiversity, energy balance, water cycle, but also exerts influence on climate and social economy (Berg et al. 2010; Liu and Diamond 2005). Besides, LUCC is a significant performance of material and energy interactions between human and global environment.