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Table 4.1
Schemes of the simulation test with WRF model
Test
Test period
Underlying surface
data
Climate forcing data
Control test
2000.01-2010.12
Land cover data of
2010
Climate forcing data between 2000.01
and 2010.12
Sensitivity
test
2030.01-2040.12
Land cover data of
2040
Climate forcing data between 2000.01
and 2010.12
Fig. 4.2 Conversion amount of other land use types into cultivated land in Northeast China
during 2030-2040
land area in Northeast China will increase by 288 thousand km
2
during
2030-2040, with an increment rate of 21.62 %. The newly increased cultivated
land will mainly be located in Eastern part of Three River Plain, western part of
Songnen Plain, Hilly, and mountainous area in Great Khingan Mountains and
Lesser Khingan Mountains, and Hulunbuir Region. Besides, the newly increased
cultivated land will be mainly converted from the forests, grasslands, and unused
land (Deng et al.
2010d
).
