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Table 7.5
Design of the simulation scheme
Simulation
Period of forcing data
Land cover data used in WRF model
Control simulation:
Year 2000 as the baseline year
2000
Land cover data of year 2000
Sensitivity simulation I: Year 2010
2010
Land cover data of year 2010
Sensitivity simulation II: Year
2100
2100
Land cover data of year 2100
40°0'0"E
45°0'0"E
50°0'0"E
55°0'0"E
Legend
Urban and Built-Up Land
Dryland Cropland and Pasture
Irrigated Cropland and Pasture
Mixed Dryland/Irrigated Cropland and Pasture
Cropland/Grassland Mosaic
Cropland/Woodland Mosaic
Grassland
Shrubland
Mixed Shrubland/Grassland
Savanna
Deciduous Broadleaf Forest
Deciduous Needleleaf Forest
Evergreen Broadleaf Forest
Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
Mixed Forest
Water Bodies
Herbaceous Wetland
Wooded Wetland
Barren or Sparsely Vegetated
Herbaceous Tundra
Wooded Tundra
Mixed Tundra
Bare Ground Tundra
Snow or Ice
60°0'0"N
60°0'0"N
55°0'0"N
55°0'0"N
45°0'0"E
50°0'0"E
55°0'0"E
Fig. 7.6
Land cover of the study area in year 2000
7.2.1.3 Land Cover Change in the Study Area of European Russia
The main land cover types in the study area are the croplands (four types of
cropland in USGS classification, with ''Dryland Cropland and Pasture'' (DCP) and
''Cropland Woodland Mosaics'' (CWM) dominating) and forests (four types of
forest in USGS classification, with ''Evergreen Needleleaf Forest'' (ENF) and
''Mixed Forest'' (MF) dominating), accounting for about 53 and 44 % of the total
land area, respectively. The land conversion types in the region are mainly
dominated by the conversions between croplands and forests.
From 2000 to 2010, the land cover conversion is dominated by the conversion
from croplands to forests (mainly from CWM type to MF in the northern part of
the study area) and conversion from forests to croplands (mainly from MF to DCP
in the southern part of the study area) in different parts of the study area. Statistics
analysis shows that the grids dominated by the conversion from croplands to
forests account for 26.18 % of all the grids in the study area, and grids dominated
by the conversion from forests to croplands accounts for 27.80 % of all the grids.
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