Abstract:This study uses a mesoscale numerical model WRF3.8/Noah/UCM, to conduct a 5-year (2008—2012) high resolution numerical simulation for the climate effect caused by the phenomenon of obvious decrease of irrigated paddy fields and obvious increase of agricultural and natural vegetation mosaics (hereinafter referred to as mosaics) in the Yangtze River Delta region in the past 30 years. First, ChinaLC land cover data was written into the WRF model. The classification reliability of ChinaLC between mosaics and paddy fields was verified by MODIS albedo and leaf area index products respectively. According to the station observation data, the built-in USGS data simulation results of ChinaLC and WRF models were evaluated. After analysis, the ChinaLC has been proved to have good classification accuracy and to be conducive to improving the simulation performance of the model. The results of an analysis of the contrast experiment of the Yangtze River Delta region show: because the mosaics areas took place of the paddy fields, not only the weather condition of non-urban areas changed, but also that of the urban areas was affected, and since the growth rate in non-urban areas was larger than that in urban areas, the temperature difference between urban and non-urban areas weakened. Due to the increase of mosaics, temperature increased 0.1—0.3 ℃ in the southwest of Jiangsu and north of Zhejiang Province, the wind speed decreased by 0.1—0.3 m·s-1, the specific humidity decreased by 0.05—0.15 g·kg-1 and the planetary boundary layer height increased by 40 m. The precipitation decreased in Northern Nanjing-Chuzhou and southwestern Jiangsu Province, where the mosaic significantly increased. The average monthly precipitation in Northern Nanjing-Chuzhou decreased by 0.6 mm·d-1, and that in Ma'anshan—Lishui decreased by 0.2 mm·d-1.