The change of simulated latent heat flux associated with modeled species composition in terms of LAI fraction ...

• Main Authors: Zhang, Wenxin, Paul A Miller, Benjamin Smith, Rita Wania, Torben Koenigk, Döscher, Ralf
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2013
• Subjects: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified; Arctic; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1011564; https://iop.figshare.com/articles/figure/_The_change_of_simulated_latent_heat_flux_associated_with_modeled_species_composition_in_terms_of_LA/1011564

Figure 6. The change of simulated latent heat flux associated with modeled species composition in terms of LAI fraction. (a) The change of latent heat flux between the recent and the future periods. (b) Species transition at location (66.46° N, 153.76° E), denoted as the red triangle in (a). (c) Species transition at location (60.87° N, 21.83° E), denoted as the red star in (a). Abstract One major challenge to the improvement of regional climate scenarios for the northern high latitudes is to understand land surface feedbacks associated with vegetation shifts and ecosystem biogeochemical cycling. We employed a customized, Arctic version of the individual-based dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS to simulate the dynamics of upland and wetland ecosystems under a regional climate model–downscaled future climate projection for the Arctic and Subarctic. The simulated vegetation distribution (1961–1990) agreed well with a composite map of actual arctic vegetation. In the future (2051–2080), a poleward advance of ...