Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

MG Turner, WJ Calder… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecologists have long studied patterns, directions and tempos of change, but there is a
pressing need to extend current understanding to empirical observations of abrupt changes …

Reviewing the impact of land use and land‐use change on moisture recycling and precipitation patterns

SA te Wierik, ELH Cammeraat, J Gupta… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Green water, or plant‐available soil moisture, is a substantial subset of terrestrial fresh
water. Land‐use change (LUC) alters green water dynamics through interactions on the …

Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport

J Cui, X Lian, C Huntingford, L Gimeno, T Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Surface-water availability, defined as precipitation minus evapotranspiration, can be affected
by changes in vegetation. These impacts can be local, due to the modification of …

The residence time of water vapour in the atmosphere

L Gimeno, J Eiras-Barca, AM Durán-Quesada… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric water vapour residence time (WVRT) is an essential indicator of how
atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics mediate hydrological cycle responses to …

Last phase of the Little Ice Age forced by volcanic eruptions

S Brönnimann, J Franke, SU Nussbaumer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
During the first half of the nineteenth century, several large tropical volcanic eruptions
occurred within less than three decades. The global climate effects of the 1815 Tambora …

Past and future adverse response of terrestrial water storages to increased vegetation growth in drylands

K Liu, X Li, S Wang, G Zhou - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023 - nature.com
The response of terrestrial water storages to dryland vegetation growth remains poorly
understood. Using multiple proxies from satellite observations and model outputs, we show …

Weakened dust activity over China and Mongolia from 2001 to 2020 associated with climate change and land-use management

S Wang, Y Yu, XX Zhang, H Lu… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Dust cycle is actively involved in the Earth's climate and environmental systems. However,
the spatiotemporal pattern and recent trend of dust emission from the drylands in East Asia …

Identification and characterization of dust source regions across North Africa and the Middle East using MISR satellite observations

Y Yu, OV Kalashnikova, MJ Garay… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by limitations in current satellite‐based dust source identification techniques, this
study examines dust emissions and concentrations over North Africa and the Middle East …

Quantifying the effects of climate and environmental changes on evapotranspiration variability in the Sahel

E Nkiaka, RG Bryant, M Dembélé, R Yonaba… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Whilst considerable research has been carried out to understand the effects of reforestation
on evapotranspiration (ET), such studies are generally absent in the Sahel even though the …

Modelling temperature‐precipitation pressures on African timber heritage

J Richards, P Brimblecombe… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate parameters can be refined for use in a heritage context to capture climate‐based
deterioration processes occurring on buildings and sites. The Scheffer index, which …