The capacity of forests to protect regional climate under global warming

全球变暖下森林保护区域气候的能力

• 批准号: DP160102107
• 负责人: Em/Prof Clive McAlpine
• 金额: $ 33.52万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-06-29 至 2022-06-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160102107
• 关键词: capacity; forests; protect; regional; climate

The project plans to develop a new understanding of the capacity of forests to increase moisture recycling, which enhances cloud and precipitation processes and exerts a cooling influence on the land surface. Deforestation and climate change are major global challenges. The role of forests in the carbon cycle is well recognised. Less attention is given to their role in the energy and water cycles, and their capacity to regulate regional climate. The project plans to apply an innovative land use-climate scenario modelling to quantify the impacts of deforestation and afforestation on the climate of northern Australia and south-east Asia under global warming. It also plans to evaluate the capacity of restoring forests to offset regional climate change, to inform regional land use planning and climate mitigation and adaptation.

该项目计划对森林增加水分循环的能力有新的认识，这种能力加强了云和降水过程，并对陆地表面产生冷却影响。森林砍伐和气候变化是全球面临的重大挑战。森林在碳循环中的作用得到了广泛的认可。对它们在能源和水循环中的作用及其调节区域气候的能力的关注较少。该项目计划采用一种创新的土地使用-气候情景模型，以量化在全球变暖的情况下毁林和植树造林对澳大利亚北方和东南亚气候的影响。它还计划评估恢复森林以抵消区域气候变化的能力，为区域土地利用规划以及气候减缓和适应提供信息。