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SUBMITTER: Huang B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044322 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Bo B Hu Xiangping X Fuglstad Geir-Arne GA Zhou Xu X Zhao Wenwu W Cherubini Francesco F
Nature communications 20200226 1
Around 70 Mha of land cover changes (LCCs) occurred in Europe from 1992 to 2015. Despite LCCs being an important driver of regional climate variations, their temperature effects at a continental scale have not yet been assessed. Here, we integrate maps of historical LCCs with a regional climate model to investigate air temperature and humidity effects. We find an average temperature change of -0.12 ± 0.20 °C, with widespread cooling (up to -1.0 °C) in western and central Europe in summer and spr ...[more]