Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves
Heatwaves are extreme weather events that have become more frequent and intense in Europe over the past decades. Heatwaves are often coupled to droughts. The combination of them lead to severe ecological and socio-economic impacts. Heatwaves can self-amplify through internal climatic feedback that r...
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ftunivwagenin:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/586573 2024-04-28T08:31:01+00:00 Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves Pranindita, Agnes Wang-Erlandsson, Lan Fetzer, Ingo Teuling, Adriaan J. 2022 application/pdf https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/moisture-recycling-and-the-potential-role-of-forests-as-moisture- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05921-7 en eng https://edepot.wur.nl/553283 https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/moisture-recycling-and-the-potential-role-of-forests-as-moisture- doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05921-7 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Wageningen University & Research Climate Dynamics 58 (2022) 1-2 ISSN: 0930-7575 ERA-Interim Europe Forests Heatwaves Moisture recycling Water Accounting Model Article/Letter to editor 2022 ftunivwagenin https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05921-7 2024-04-03T14:58:12Z Heatwaves are extreme weather events that have become more frequent and intense in Europe over the past decades. Heatwaves are often coupled to droughts. The combination of them lead to severe ecological and socio-economic impacts. Heatwaves can self-amplify through internal climatic feedback that reduces local precipitation. Understanding the terrestrial sources of local precipitation during heatwaves might help identify mitigation strategies on land management and change that alleviate impacts. Moisture recycling of local water sources through evaporation allows a region to maintain precipitation in the same region or, by being transported by winds, in adjacent regions. To understand the role of terrestrial moisture sources for sustaining precipitation during heatwaves, we backtrack and analyse the precipitation sources of Northern, Western, and Southern sub-regions across Europe during 20 heatwave periods between 1979 and 2018 using the moisture tracking model Water Accounting Model-2layers (WAM-2layers). In Northern and Western Europe, we find that stabilizing anticyclonic patterns reduce the climatological westerly supply of moisture, mainly from the North Atlantic Ocean, and enhances the moisture flow from the eastern Euro-Asian continent and from within their own regions—suggesting over 10% shift of moisture supply from oceanic to terrestrial sources. In Southern Europe, limited local moisture sources result in a dramatic decrease in the local moisture recycling rate. Forests uniformly supply additional moisture to all regions during heatwaves and thus contribute to buffer local impacts. This study suggests that terrestrial moisture sources, especially forests, may potentially be important to mitigate moisture scarcity during heatwaves in Europe. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library Climate Dynamics |
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Heatwaves are extreme weather events that have become more frequent and intense in Europe over the past decades. Heatwaves are often coupled to droughts. The combination of them lead to severe ecological and socio-economic impacts. Heatwaves can self-amplify through internal climatic feedback that reduces local precipitation. Understanding the terrestrial sources of local precipitation during heatwaves might help identify mitigation strategies on land management and change that alleviate impacts. Moisture recycling of local water sources through evaporation allows a region to maintain precipitation in the same region or, by being transported by winds, in adjacent regions. To understand the role of terrestrial moisture sources for sustaining precipitation during heatwaves, we backtrack and analyse the precipitation sources of Northern, Western, and Southern sub-regions across Europe during 20 heatwave periods between 1979 and 2018 using the moisture tracking model Water Accounting Model-2layers (WAM-2layers). In Northern and Western Europe, we find that stabilizing anticyclonic patterns reduce the climatological westerly supply of moisture, mainly from the North Atlantic Ocean, and enhances the moisture flow from the eastern Euro-Asian continent and from within their own regions—suggesting over 10% shift of moisture supply from oceanic to terrestrial sources. In Southern Europe, limited local moisture sources result in a dramatic decrease in the local moisture recycling rate. Forests uniformly supply additional moisture to all regions during heatwaves and thus contribute to buffer local impacts. This study suggests that terrestrial moisture sources, especially forests, may potentially be important to mitigate moisture scarcity during heatwaves in Europe. |
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Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves |
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Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves |
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Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves |
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Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves |
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Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves |
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moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during european heatwaves |
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