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Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 2. Transient dynamics

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorNational Science Foundation
cg.coverage.countryBenin
cg.coverage.countryBurkina Faso
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.countrySenegal
cg.coverage.countryTogo
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BJ
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BF
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GH
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2SN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TG
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierLiangzhi You: 0000-0001-7930-8814
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/2016ms000721
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn1942-2466
cg.issue1
cg.journalJournal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.volume9
dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Kazi Farzan
dc.contributor.authorWang, Guiling
dc.contributor.authorYou, Liangzhi
dc.contributor.authorAnyah, Richard
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Chuanrong
dc.contributor.authorBurnicki, Amy
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:23:58Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:23:58Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148163
dc.titleProjecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 2. Transient dynamicsen
dcterms.abstractUnderstanding climate-cropland interactions and their impact on future projections in West Africa motivated the recent development of a modeling framework that asynchronously couples four models for regional climate, crop growth, socioeconomics, and cropland allocation. This modeling framework can be applied to a future time slice using an equilibrium approach or to a continuous projection using a transient approach. This paper compares the differences between these two approaches, examines the transient dynamics of the system, and evaluates its impact on future projections. During the course of projection up to mid-century, food demand is projected to increase monotonically, while the projected crop yield shows a high degree of temporal dynamics due to strong climate variability. Such temporal dynamics are not accounted for by the equilibrium approach. As a result, the transient approach projects a generally faster future expansion of cropland, with the largest differences over Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, and Togo. Despite the relative large differences between the two approaches in projecting land cover changes associated with cropland expansion, the projected future climate changes are fairly similar. While the additional cropland expansion in the transient approach favors a wet signal, both the transient and equilibrium approaches project a future decrease of rainfall in the western part of West Africa and an increase in the eastern part. For quantifying climate changes, the equilibrium application of the modeling framework is likely to be sufficient; for assessing climate impact on agricultural sectors and devising mitigation and adaptation strategies, transient dynamics is important.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2017-02-07
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWang, Guiling; Ahmed, Kazi Farzan; You, Liangzhi; Yu, Miao; Pal, Jeremy; and Ji, Zhenming. 2017. Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 1. Model description and an equilibrium application over West Africa. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 9(1): 377-388. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000721en
dcterms.extentpp. 377-388
dcterms.issued2017
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherAmerican Geophysical Union
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/5761
dcterms.subjectforecastingen
dcterms.subjectland-use changeen
dcterms.subjectclimateen
dcterms.subjectcropsen
dcterms.subjectdemanden
dcterms.subjectcrop yielden
dcterms.subjectland useen
dcterms.subjectcrop performanceen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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