NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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The underpinnings of land‐use history: three centuries of global gridded land‐use transitions, wood‐harvest activity, and resulting secondary lands

Abstract To accurately assess the impacts of human land use on the Earth system, information is needed on the current and historical patterns of land‐use activities. Previous gl...

Atmospheric angular momentum fluctuations, length-of-day changes and polar motion

Variations in the distribution of mass within the atmosphere and changes in the pattern of winds, particularly the strength and location of the major mid-latitude jet-streams, p...

Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

We have developed a dynamic land model (LM3V) able to simulate ecosystem dynamics and exchanges of water, energy, and CO 2 between land and atmosphere. LM3V is specifically desi...

Sensitivity of the Global Water Cycle to the Water-Holding Capacity of Land

The sensitivity of the global water cycle to the water-holding capacity of the plant-root zone of continental soils is estimated by simulations using a mathematical model of the...