Extreme heat, drought and moisture excess are increasingly co-occurring within a single
growing season, impacting crop yields in global breadbasket regions. In this Review, we …

Regardless of annual rainfall amount changes, daily rainfall events are becoming more
intense but less frequent with anthropogenic warming. Larger rainfall events and longer dry …

Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global
food security. Concurrent weather extremes driven by a strongly meandering jet stream …

An exponential rise in the atmospheric vapour pressure deficit (VPD) is among the most
consequential impacts of climate change in terrestrial ecosystems. Rising VPD has negative …

Both low soil water content (SWC) and high atmospheric dryness (vapor pressure deficit,
VPD) can negatively affect terrestrial gross primary production (GPP). The sensitivity of GPP …

Rising air temperatures are a leading risk to global crop production. Recent research has
emphasized the critical role of moisture availability in regulating crop responses to heat and …

Food systems are at the center of a brewing storm consisting of a rapidly changing climate,
rising hunger and malnutrition, and significant social inequities. At the same time, there are …

Irrigation is an important adaptation to reduce crop yield loss due to water stress from both
soil water deficit (low soil moisture) and atmospheric aridity (high vapor pressure deficit …

Accurate estimates of root zone soil moisture (RZSM) at relevant spatio-temporal scales are
essential for many agricultural and hydrological applications. Applications of machine …

Warming temperatures tend to damage crop yields, yet the influence of water supply on
global yields and its relation to temperature stress remains unclear. Here we use satellite …