Urgent need to improve modelled sensitivity of evaporation to vegetation change

Urgent need to improve modelled sensitivity of evaporation to vegetation change | Nature Water

Earth system model projections of vegetation–climate feedback frequently depend on inaccurate values of evaporation sensitivity to vegetation changes, potentially resulting in misleading conclusions. A promising avenue involves improving the transpiration partitioning parameterizations and incorporating groundwater connections to refine the modelled sensitivity.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42371026 and 42071022) and by the start-up fund provided by the Southern University of Science and Technology (29/Y01296602, 29/Y01296122 and 29/Y01296222).

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Wang, D., Zeng, Z. Urgent need to improve modelled sensitivity of evaporation to vegetation change. Nat Water (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00203-y
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