Constrained tropical land temperature-precipitation sensitivity reveals decreasing evapotranspiration and faster vegetation greening in CMIP6 projections

Abstract Over the tropical land surface, accurate estimates of future changes in temperature, precipitation and evapotranspiration are crucial for ecological sustainability, but remain highly uncertain. Here we develop a series of emergent constraints (ECs) by using historical and future outputs fro...

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Main Authors: Boyuan Zhu, Yongzhou Cheng, Xuyue Hu, Yuanfang Chai, Wouter R. Berghuijs, Alistair G. L. Borthwick, Louise Slater
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00419-x