Projecting Potential Vegetation Distribution

LoiczView’s ‘best prediction’ for potential vegetation was used to project ‘current’ vegetation distributions fifty years into the future under conditions of global climate change.  Current climatic data were replaced with two, projected climate scenarios produced by a GCM created at the Hadley Centre; one set a conservative scenario for projected climate assumed a 0.5% / annum CO2  increase and incorporated the negative forcing from sulfate aerosols, and the other set a less conservative or more extreme scenario for projected climate assumed a 1.0% / annum CO2  increase and did not incorporate the negative forcing from sulfate aerosols.
 

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