Large‐scale afforestation enhances precipitation by intensifying the atmospheric water cycle over the Chinese Loess Plateau

L Tian, B Zhang, S Chen, X Wang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Afforestation is an appropriate approach to control soil erosion, but consumes extra water
resources. It also exerts feedbacks on local precipitation, affecting the water availability for …

The role of primary emission and transboundary transport in the air quality changes during and after the COVID‐19 lockdown in China

H Fan, Y Wang, C Zhao, Y Yang, X Yang… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In late January 2020, China's rapid and strict control measures to curb the COVID‐
19 spread led to a sharp halt in socio‐economic activity and a significant reduction in …

A novel atmospheric river identification algorithm

M Pan, M Lu - Water Resources Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, climatology, variability, hydrological impact, and climatic drivers of
atmospheric rivers (ARs) are widely explored based on various AR identification algorithms …

Ice-sheet modulation of deglacial North American monsoon intensification

T Bhattacharya, JE Tierney, JA Addison… - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The North American monsoon, the dominant source of rainfall for much of the arid
US Southwest, remains one of the least understood monsoon systems. The late Pleistocene …

An in-depth analysis of physical blue and green water scarcity in agriculture in terms of causes and events and perceived amenability to economic interpretation

K Zisopoulou, D Panagoulia - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
An analytical review of physical blue and green water scarcity in terms of agricultural use,
and its amenability to economic interpretation, is presented, employing more than 600 …

Moisture sources associated with heavy rainfall over the Limpopo River Basin, southern Africa

RS Rapolaki, RC Blamey, JC Hermes, CJC Reason - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
Moisture sources and pathways over the Limpopo River Basin (LRB) in southern Africa were
identified using the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) …

Local moisture recycling across the globe

JJE Theeuwen, A Staal, OA Tuinenburg… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract Changes in evaporation over land affect terrestrial precipitation via atmospheric
moisture recycling and, consequently, freshwater availability. Although global moisture …

Projected changes in daily precipitation, temperature and wet‐bulb temperature across Arizona using statistically downscaled CMIP6 climate models

T Kim, G Villarini - International Journal of Climatology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To evaluate future changes in the climate system, the outputs from coarse‐resolution global
climate models (GCMs) need to be downscaled to a finer scale, making them more directly …

Global land drought hubs confounded by teleconnection hotspots in equatorial oceans

T Chauhan, V Chandel, S Ghosh - npj Climate and Atmospheric …, 2024 - nature.com
Emerging data-driven techniques, such as Complex Networks (CNs), can identify spatial
linkages between droughts on a global scale and can improve early warning systems …

Elevated Grand Canyon groundwater recharge during the warm Early Holocene

MS Lachniet, X Du, SG Dee, Y Asmerom, VJ Polyak… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Summer rainfall is an important contributor to water budgets in western North American
deserts, where intense rainfall sustains ecosystems while also causing flash floods and …