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Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought
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Significance: Carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems mitigates the impact of anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions on atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, but the strength of this carbon sink is highly sensitive to large-scale extreme climate events. In 2012, the United States experienced the most severe drought since the Dust Bowl period, along with the warmest spring on record. Here, we quantify the impact of this climate anomaly on the carbon cycle. Our results show that warming-induced earlier vegetation activity increased spring carbon uptake, and thus compensated for reduced carbon uptake during the summer drought in 2012. This compensation, however, came at the cost of soil moisture depletion from increased spring evapotranspiration that likely enhanced summer heating through land-atmosphere coupling.
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Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models
Dai, A. (2013) · Nature Climate Change · doi:10.1038/nclimate1633 · Cited by 4,762
Global warming and changes in drought
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“A increase in the intensity and duration of drought (1, 2), along with warmer temperatures, is projected for the 21st century (3).”
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Little change in global drought over the past 60 years
Sheffield, J., Wood, E. F., & Roderick, M. L. (2012) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature11575 · Cited by 1,978 · cited 1×
“Soil water deficits during drought impose a reduction in stomatal conductance, thereby reducing evaporative cooling and thus increasing near-surface temperatures (14).”
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- Wolf, S., Keenan, T. F., Fisher, J. B., Baldocchi, D. D., Desai, A. R., Richardson, A. D., Scott, R. L., Law, B. E., Litvak, M. E., Brunsell, N. A., Peters, W., & van der Laan-Luijkx, I. T.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-04-25
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 5880-5885
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
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- W2345072211
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- 476
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 34.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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