Dear all,
I am fairly new to WRF, but managed to run some deforestation scenarios over Colombia to study the impact of land cover/land use change on climate in the tropics. While I was preparing my input data (ERA-Interim) and running the control and deforestation scenario (I changed the physical properties of evergreen broadleaf forest to cropland and pasture in the VEGPARM.TBL and LANDUSE.TBL) everything seemed fine.
But now when comparing the runs, surface temperature over the deforested areas are about 0.1°C - 0.3°C cooler than in the control run. All existing literature on deforestation impacts says the contrary: temperature should rise after deforestation in the tropics!
Now I am confused and a little desperate (it's my master's thesis topic), because I can't find any possible reason for that.
If anyone had some similar problem or any idea what could be the reason for this cooling, I would be very grateful.
Cheers,
Astrid
I am fairly new to WRF, but managed to run some deforestation scenarios over Colombia to study the impact of land cover/land use change on climate in the tropics. While I was preparing my input data (ERA-Interim) and running the control and deforestation scenario (I changed the physical properties of evergreen broadleaf forest to cropland and pasture in the VEGPARM.TBL and LANDUSE.TBL) everything seemed fine.
But now when comparing the runs, surface temperature over the deforested areas are about 0.1°C - 0.3°C cooler than in the control run. All existing literature on deforestation impacts says the contrary: temperature should rise after deforestation in the tropics!
Now I am confused and a little desperate (it's my master's thesis topic), because I can't find any possible reason for that.
If anyone had some similar problem or any idea what could be the reason for this cooling, I would be very grateful.
Cheers,
Astrid