Drought propagation under global warming: Characteristics, approaches, processes, and controlling factors

X Zhang, Z Hao, VP Singh, Y Zhang, S Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drought is a costly natural hazard with far-reaching impacts on agriculture, ecosystem, water
supply, and socio-economy. While propagating through the water cycle, drought evolves into …

Irrigation in the Earth system

S McDermid, M Nocco, P Lawston-Parker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

[HTML][HTML] ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

J Muñoz-Sabater, E Dutra… - … system science data, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract Framed within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European
Commission, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is …

[HTML][HTML] Global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence

JI Christian, JB Basara, ED Hunt, JA Otkin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Flash drought is characterized by a period of rapid drought intensification with impacts on
agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and the human environment. Addressing these …

[HTML][HTML] Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally

L Liu, L Gudmundsson, M Hauser, D Qin, S Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dryness stress can limit vegetation growth and is often characterized by low soil moisture
(SM) and high atmospheric water demand (vapor pressure deficit, VPD). However, the …

Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

O Boucher, J Servonnat, AL Albright… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents the global climate model IPSL‐CM6A‐LR developed at Institut Pierre‐
Simon Laplace (IPSL) to study natural climate variability and climate response to natural and …

Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective

Z Wang, H Luo, S Yang - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In July and August of 2022, unprecedented and long-lasting heatwaves attacked
central and eastern China (CEC); and the most affected area was in the Yangtze River (YR) …

Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land–atmosphere feedbacks

DL Schumacher, J Keune, P Dirmeyer… - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Reduced evaporation due to dry soils can affect the land surface energy balance, with
implications for local and downwind precipitation. When evaporation is constrained by soil …

[HTML][HTML] Soil moisture–atmosphere coupling accelerates global warming

L Qiao, Z Zuo, R Zhang, S Piao, D Xiao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soil moisture–atmosphere coupling (SA) amplifies greenhouse gas-driven global warming
via changes in surface heat balance. The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project projects …