Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7318, 2010, Pages 951-954

  Jung, Martin ^a   Reichstein, Markus ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^b   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^c   Sheffield, Justin ^d   Goulden, Michael L ^e   Bonan, Gordon ^f   Cescatti, Alessandro ^g   Chen, Jiquan ^h   De Jeu, Richard ⁱ   Dolman, A Johannes ⁱ   Eugster, Werner ^j   Gerten, Dieter ^k   Gianelle, Damiano ^l   Gobron, Nadine ^g   Heinke, Jens ^k   Kimball, John ^m   Law, Beverly E ⁿ   Montagnani, Leonardo ^o   Mu, Qiaozhen ^p   Mueller, Brigitte ^c   Oleson, Keith ^f   Papale, Dario ^q   Richardson, Andrew D ^r   Roupsard, Olivier ^s   Running, Steve ^p   Tomelleri, Enrico ^a   Viovy, Nicolas ^b   Weber, Ulrich ^a   Williams, Christopher ^t   Wood, Eric ^d   Zaehle, Sönke ^a   Zhang, Ke ^m   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

ⁱ VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^j ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^l RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

ⁿ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o Forest Services and Agency for the Environment   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^r HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s CIRAD   (France)

^t CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EL NINO; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MOISTURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR POWER; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE; MACHINE LEARNING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE SOIL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATMOSPHERE; FRESH WATER; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMIDITY; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SOIL; UNCERTAINTY; VOLATILIZATION; WATER CYCLE;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78049234152     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09396     Document Type: Article

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