Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes on Regional Climate over Europe
Anthropogenic alterations of the land surface through activities such as agriculture, forestry and urban development represent important human-induced forcings on the Earth’s climate system. This study, conducted in the framework of the UpClim project, employs the non-hydrostatic WRF-ARW v4.5.1 model forced by ERA5 reanalysis data to assess the impact of land use changes (LUCs) on the European climate. The study aims to quantify the effects of LUCs over the EURO-CORDEX domain at 0.11° resolution during 1980–1985 by comparing simulations with transient land use forcing against a control run with static land use.
Authors
- Στέργιος Κάρτσιος (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-3782)
- Eleni Katragkou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3411)
- Sofia Eirini Paschou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5839-2291)
Institutions
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-09-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/eesp2025035053
- Primary Topic
- Climate variability and models
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- Research Committee, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki