Intensified future heat extremes linked with increasing ecosystem water limitation

Denissen, Jasper M. C.; Teuling, Adriaan J.; Koirala, Sujan; Reichstein, Markus; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Vogel, Martha M.; Yu, Xin; Orth, René

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-717-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-717-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-717-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

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11 Jun 2024

Research article |

| 11 Jun 2024

Intensified future heat extremes linked with increasing ecosystem water limitation

Jasper M. C. Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Sujan Koirala, Markus Reichstein, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Martha M. Vogel, Xin Yu, and René Orth

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-717-2024-supplement

Data sets

Data_Denissen_et_al_2024_ESD Jasper Denissen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11072827

The Earth System Grid Federation: An open infrastructure for access to distributed geospatial data (https://aims2.llnl.gov/search/?project=CMIP6/) Luca Cinquini et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2013.07.002

Model code and software

JasperMCDenissen/Denissen_etal_2024_ESD: Denissen_et_al_2024_ESD (Version v1) Jasper M. C. Denissen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11073163

acccmip6: Python package for accessing and downloading CMIP6 data (v2.0.0) Taufiq Hassan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6559056

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Heat extremes have severe implications for human health and ecosystems. Heat extremes are mostly introduced by large-scale atmospheric circulation but can be modulated by vegetation. Vegetation with access to water uses solar energy to evaporate water into the atmosphere. Under dry conditions, water may not be available, suppressing evaporation and heating the atmosphere. Using climate projections, we show that regionally less water is available for vegetation, intensifying future heat extremes.