Prediction and projection of heatwaves

DIV Domeisen, EAB Eltahir, EM Fischer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves constitute a major threat to human health and ecosystems. Projected increases
in heatwave frequency and severity thus lead to the need for prediction to enhance …

A typology of compound weather and climate events

J Zscheischler, O Martius, S Westra… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Compound weather and climate events describe combinations of multiple climate drivers
and/or hazards that contribute to societal or environmental risk. Although many climate …

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

D Gampe, J Zscheischler, M Reichstein… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves have a large impact on terrestrial carbon
uptake by reducing gross primary production (GPP). While the evidence for increasing …

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

WRL Anderegg, AT Trugman, G Badgley… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Forests have considerable potential to help mitigate human-caused climate
change and provide society with a broad range of cobenefits. Local, national, and …

Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts

WRL Anderegg, AT Trugman, G Badgley… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change-driven increases in drought frequency and severity could compromise forest
ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink,–. While the impacts of single droughts on forests …

Future climate risk from compound events

J Zscheischler, S Westra, BJJM Van Den Hurk… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and droughts often result from a combination of interacting
physical processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales. The combination of …

How eddy covariance flux measurements have contributed to our understanding of Global Change Biology

DD Baldocchi - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A global network of long‐term carbon and water flux measurements has existed since the
late 1990s. With its representative sampling of the terrestrial biosphere's climate and …

Extreme weather and climate events with ecological relevance: a review

CC Ummenhofer, GA Meehl - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Robust evidence exists that certain extreme weather and climate events, especially daily
temperature and precipitation extremes, have changed in regard to intensity and frequency …

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

CD Allen, DD Breshears, NG McDowell - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated
broad‐scale forest die‐off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter …

Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring

BD Stocker, J Zscheischler, TF Keenan, IC Prentice… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Satellite retrievals of information about the Earth's surface are widely used to monitor global
terrestrial photosynthesis and primary production and to examine the ecological impacts of …