Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Abstract The European CORDEX (EURO-CORDEX) initiative is a large voluntary effort that
seeks to advance regional climate and Earth system science in Europe. As part of the World …

Context Studies have shown that land use and land cover change (LUCC) has myriad
impacts on local and regional climate. Synthesizing the recent findings in this field helps …

Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

This chapter assesses the scientific literature describing expectations for near-term climate
(present through mid-century). Unless otherwise stated," near-term" change and the …

Land surface processes modulate the severity of heat waves, droughts, and other extreme
events. However, models show contrasting effects of land surface changes on extreme …

A suggestion for mapping the SRES illustrative scenarios onto the new scenarios framework
of representative concentration pathways (RCPs) and shared socio-economic pathways …

Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon
Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century in: Journal of Climate Volume 26 Issue …

An ecosystem service is a benefit derived by humanity that can be traced back to an
ecological process. Although ecosystem services related to surface water have been …