On the 1st of September dr. Kees Klein Goldewijk will give a lunch lecture at the department of Physical Geography, entitled: 'Improving historical land use reconstructions for better understanding of the global carbon cycle: results from the HYDE database' . Kees is a researcher at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. He will discuss the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE database) and how this database can help us to better understand past land cover and land use changes as well as climate change.
Summary of the talk:
Adequate incorporation of land cover in global and regional climate models is still one of the major priorities in the climate modelling community. In particular, anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) is still not successfully implemented in these models. As a result, climate modelling in paleo-mode or projection mode that tries to take ALCC into account is seriously hampered (Strandberg et al., 2014). The PAGES LandCover6k working group addresses land-cover change across the globe that is climate-induced, natural, AND human-induced due to anthropogenic land use from ca. 1-2 millennia before the start of agriculture. The History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) has been developed to address these questions, amongst other applications. Planned products of LandCover6k are A) Largely improved HYDE and KK models for the Holocene using land-use and land-cover reconstructions from paleo-ecological data and historical/archaeological data using products B) Land-cover and land-use maps for time windows and/or periods of the Holocene.
Interested in this talk? You can attend the lunch lecture at 1 September 2015 at 12.15, department of Physical Geography, Zonneveldvleugel, Zon 027 (bring your own lunch).
Adequate incorporation of land cover in global and regional climate models is still one of the major priorities in the climate modelling community. In particular, anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) is still not successfully implemented in these models. As a result, climate modelling in paleo-mode or projection mode that tries to take ALCC into account is seriously hampered (Strandberg et al., 2014). The PAGES LandCover6k working group addresses land-cover change across the globe that is climate-induced, natural, AND human-induced due to anthropogenic land use from ca. 1-2 millennia before the start of agriculture. The History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) has been developed to address these questions, amongst other applications. Planned products of LandCover6k are A) Largely improved HYDE and KK models for the Holocene using land-use and land-cover reconstructions from paleo-ecological data and historical/archaeological data using products B) Land-cover and land-use maps for time windows and/or periods of the Holocene.
Interested in this talk? You can attend the lunch lecture at 1 September 2015 at 12.15, department of Physical Geography, Zonneveldvleugel, Zon 027 (bring your own lunch).