Global drought trends and future projections

SM Vicente-Serrano… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

Public health implications of drought in a climate change context: a critical review

C Salvador, R Nieto, SM Vicente-Serrano… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather events are expected to increase due to climate change, which could pose
an additional burden of morbidity and mortality. In recent decades, drought severity has …

Exceeding 1.5 C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

DI Armstrong McKay, A Staal, JF Abrams… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Climate tipping points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-
perpetuating beyond a warming threshold, leading to substantial Earth system impacts …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits

Z Fu, P Ciais, IC Prentice, P Gentine… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

The 2018–2020 multi‐year drought sets a new benchmark in Europe

O Rakovec, L Samaniego, V Hari, Y Markonis… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the period 2018–2020, Europe experienced a series of hot and dry weather
conditions with significant socioeconomic and environmental consequences. Yet, the …

Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe

AM Van Der Woude, W Peters, E Joetzjer… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The year 2022 saw record breaking temperatures in Europe during both summer and fall.
Similar to the recent 2018 drought, close to 30%(3.0 million km2) of the European continent …

The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

RL Salomón, RL Peters, R Zweifel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Heatwaves exert disproportionately strong and sometimes irreversible impacts on forest
ecosystems. These impacts remain poorly understood at the tree and species level and …

How unusual is the 2022 European compound drought and heatwave event?

KP Tripathy, AK Mishra - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2022 Compound Drought and Heatwave (CDHW) caused widespread crop
damage, water shortages, and wildfires across Europe. Our study analyzed this event's …

European beech dieback after premature leaf senescence during the 2018 drought in northern Switzerland

ER Frei, MM Gossner, Y Vitasse, V Queloz… - Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the particularly severe hot summer drought in 2018, widespread premature leaf
senescence was observed in several broadleaved tree species in Central Europe …