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Elena De Petrillo, Lan Wang Erlandsson, Marta Tuninetti, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio. 2024. Integrating land-atmosphere interactions in the water footprint indicator. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-22014
The aim of this study is to redefine the green water footprint, which can be used for assessing the resilience and sustainability of green water use for food production addressing feedbacks between upwind land cover changes and downwind changes in precipitation, which can subsequently lead to changes in actual crop evapotranspiration, yields and the relative associated irrigation water demand. Therefore, we define green water...
Chelsea Kaandorp, Juan Rocha, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Cynthia Flores, Andrew Hattle, Henrik Österblom, Carl Folke. 2024. Rethinking the Intertwined Biosphere. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-18923
Transformations towards sustainable futures can only be achieved with an advanced understanding of how human life is intertwined with the whole biosphere. Systems of people and nature are not separate entities but inherently connected across temporal and spatial scales. There is a dynamic interplay between the biosphere and the broader Earth system. Life in the biosphere has evolved with the basic building blocks of planet Ear...
Miina Porkka, Vili Virkki, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Matti Kummu. 2024. The new planetary boundary for freshwater change: key findings and their potential to guide water management and policy. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19383
The recent third planetary boundary (PB) assessment replaced the original PB for ‘freshwater use’ with a new PB for ‘freshwater change’. The new PB is defined by the percentage of global land area experiencing streamflow (blue water component of the PB) and root-zone soil moisture (green water) deviations from pre-industrial baseline conditions. Here, we first present the spatiotemporally explicit results of the comprehensive ...
Miina Porkka, Vili Virkki, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Dieter Gerten, Tom Gleeson, Chinchu Mohan, Ingo Fetzer, Fernando Jaramillo, Arie Staal, Sofie te Wierik, Arne Tobian, Ruud van der Ent, Petra Döll, Martina Flörke, Simon N. Gosling, Naota Hanasaki, Yusuke Satoh, Hannes Müller Schmied, Niko Wanders, James S. Famiglietti, Johan Rockström, Matti Kummu. 2024. Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00208-7
Human actions compromise the many life-supporting functions provided by the freshwater cycle. Yet, scientific understanding of anthropogenic freshwater change and its long-term evolution is limited. Here, using a multi-model ensemble of global hydrological models, we estimate how, over a 145-year industrial period (1861–2005), streamflow and soil moisture have deviated from pre-industrial baseline conditions (defined by 5th–95...
Simon Felix Fahrländer, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Agnes Pranindita, Fernando Jaramillo. 2024. Hydroclimatic Vulnerability of Wetlands to Upwind Land Use Changes. Earth's Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003837
Despite their importance, wetland ecosystems protected by the Ramsar Convention are under pressure from climate change and human activities. These drivers are altering water availability in these wetlands, changing water levels or surface water extent, in some cases, beyond historical variability. Attribution of the effects of human and climate activities is usually focused on changes within the wetlands or their upstream surf...
Hongkai Gao, Markus Hrachowitz, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Fabrizio Fenicia, Qiaojuan Xi, Jianyang Xia, Wei Shao, Ge Sun, Hubert Savenije. 2024. Root zone in the Earth system. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-332
The concept of “root zone” is widely used in hydrology, agronomy, and land surface process studies. However, the root zone still lacks a precise definition. More essentially, the importance of root zone in the Earth system science is largely under explored. Furthermore, the methodology to estimate root zone is still controversial. In this study, we firstly attempted to clarify the definition of the root zone by comparing with ...
Simon Felix Fahrländer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Fernando Jaramillo, Agnes Pranindita. 2024. Hydroclimatic vulnerability of wetlands to upwind land use changes. ESS Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170541989.96154065/v2
Despite their importance, wetland ecosystems protected through the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands are under pressure from climate change and human activities. These drivers are altering water availability in these wetlands, changing water levels or surface extent, in some cases, beyond historical variability. Attribution of the effects of human and climate activities is usually focused on changes within the wetlands or their up...
Arie Staal, Jolanda J. E. Theeuwen, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Nico Wunderling, Stefan C. Dekker. 2024. Targeted rainfall enhancement as an objective of forestation. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17096
Forestation efforts are accelerating across the globe in the fight against global climate change, in order to restore biodiversity, and to improve local livelihoods. Yet, so far the non-local effects of forestation on rainfall have largely remained a blind spot. Here we build upon emerging work to propose that targeted rainfall enhancement may also be considered in the prioritization of forestation. We show that the tools to a...
Patrick W. Keys, Pamela M. Collins, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2024. Atmospheric water recycling an essential feature of critical natural asset stewardship. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.24
In this paper, we explore how critically important ecosystems on the land provide evaporation to the atmosphere, which will later fall as precipitation elsewhere. Using a model-based analysis that tracks water flowing through the atmosphere, we find that more than two-thirds of the precipitation over critically important ecosystem areas is supplied by evaporation from other land. Likewise, more than 40% of the evaporation from...
Jonathan F. Donges, Donovan P. Dennis, Sina Loriani, Boris Sakschewski, Nico Wunderling, Ricarda Winkelmann. 2024. Methodologies for climate tipping points analysis and risk assessments in TIPMIP. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-18039
The Tipping Point Modelling Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP) is an international initiative that aims to systematically improve our understanding of potential tipping dynamics in different components of the Earth system and to assess the associated uncertainties (www.tipmip.org). By linking and evaluating different models through a systematic framework, TIPMIP aims to fill critical knowledge gaps in Earth system and climate ri...
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