Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

Y Yang, ML Roderick, H Guo, DG Miralles… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Evapotranspiration (ET)—the distribution and partitioning of which is strongly mediated by
vegetation—is central to the water, energy and carbon cycles. In this Review, we examine …

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 …

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

F Yao, B Livneh, B Rajagopalan, J Wang, JF Crétaux… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Climate change and human activities increasingly threaten lakes that store 87% of Earth's
liquid surface fresh water. Yet, recent trends and drivers of lake volume change remain …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021‏ - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change

JMC Denissen, AJ Teuling, AJ Pitman, S Koirala… - Nature Climate …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Terrestrial ecosystems are essential for food and water security and CO2 uptake. Ecosystem
function is dependent on the availability of soil moisture, yet it is unclear how climate change …

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 …

Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002–2017

Y Zhang, D Kong, R Gan, FHS Chiew… - Remote sensing of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Accurate quantification of terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) is essential to understand the
Earth's energy and water budgets under climate change. However, despite water and …

Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities

H West, N Quinn, M Horswell - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. As
our climate changes, it is likely that drought events will become more intense and frequent …

Retracted article: A 10 per cent increase in global land evapotranspiration from 2003 to 2019

M Pascolini-Campbell, JT Reager, HA Chandanpurkar… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Accurate quantification of global land evapotranspiration is necessary for understanding
variability in the global water cycle, which is expected to intensify under climate change …

[HTML][HTML] A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications–confronting product characteristics with user requirements

J Peng, C Albergel, A Balenzano, L Brocca… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Soil moisture observations are of broad scientific interest and practical value for a wide
range of applications. The scientific community has made significant progress in estimating …