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Globally, some vegetation has grown significantly over the past decades, but the climate benefits remain unclear, especially in the temperate regions. Understanding the biophysical effects and identifying the potential of vegetation will help to mitigate climate change. Here, we propose a vegetation-adjusted temperature index to understand how terrestrial vegetation growth in China affects the air temperature for 2001-2013, based on satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index, near-surface air temperature (T a ) and the land surface temperature. Grassland growth and cropland growth are found to cool the T a by À 0.08 0.32 C (mean one standard deviation) and À 0.06 0.28 C, respectively. Forest growth results in net climate warming by 0.05 0.29 C. Biophysical effects, elevation and background climate are used to explain the climate impacts of vegetation. Results show that the biophysical effects dominate the climate impact. More specifically, evapotranspiration (ET) controls the daytime climate impact, and at night, an indirect effect of albedo (the release of daytime heat storage) dominates it. Lower precipitation, temperature and elevation reinforce the w

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Author

Long Li; Yong Zha; Jiahua Zhang; Yunmei Li; Heng Lyu

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0301-4797)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)