Projections of the advance in the start of the growing season during the 21st century based on CMIP5 simulations

Xia, Jiangjiang, Yan, Zhongwei, Jia, Gensuo, Zeng, Heqing, Jones, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493, Zhou, Wen and Zhang, Anzhi (2015) Projections of the advance in the start of the growing season during the 21st century based on CMIP5 simulations. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 32 (6). pp. 831-838. ISSN 1861-9533

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Abstract

It is well-known that global warming due to anthropogenic atmospheric greenhouse effects advanced the start of the vegetation growing season (SOS) across the globe during the 20th century. Projections of further changes in the SOS for the 21st century under certain emissions scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways, RCPs) are useful for improving understanding of the consequences of global warming. In this study, we first evaluate a linear relationship between the SOS (defined using the normalized difference vegetation index) and the April temperature for most land areas of the Northern Hemisphere for 1982–2008. Based on this relationship and the ensemble projection of April temperature under RCPs from the latest state-of-the-art global coupled climate models, we show the possible changes in the SOS for most of the land areas of the Northern Hemisphere during the 21st century. By around 2040–59, the SOS will have advanced by −4.7 days under RCP2.6, −8.4 days under RCP4.5, and −10.1 days under RCP8.5, relative to 1985–2004. By 2080–99, it will have advanced by −4.3 days under RCP2.6, −11.3 days under RCP4.5, and −21.6 days under RCP8.5. The geographic pattern of SOS advance is considerably dependent on that of the temperature sensitivity of the SOS. The larger the temperature sensitivity, the larger the date-shift-rate of the SOS.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2015 22:31
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 12:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53584
DOI:	10.1007/s00376-014-4125-0

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