Urgent need to improve modelled sensitivity of evaporation to vegetation change
- Resource Type
- Brief Communication
- Authors
- Wang, Dashan; Zeng, Zhenzhong
- Source
- Nature Water. 2(3):211-214
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2731-6084
Earth system model projections of vegetation–climate feedback frequently depend on inaccurate values of evaporation sensitivity to vegetation changes, potentially resulting in misleading conclusions. A promising avenue involves improving the transpiration partitioning parameterizations and incorporating groundwater connections to refine the modelled sensitivity.