Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 421-426

  Samaniego, L ^a   Thober, S ^a   Kumar, R ^a   Wanders, N ^b   Rakovec, O ^a,c   Pan, M ^d   Zink, M ^a,f   Sheffield, J ^e   Wood, E F ^d   Marx, A ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

EUROPE;

EID: 85045837734     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0138-5     Document Type: Article

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